JUST IN: Trump launches a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times — naming reporters Peter Baker, Michael Schmidt, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner — because he doesn't like what they have written/reported about him.
“Reporter: What do you make of Bondi saying she is going after hate speech, a lot of allies say hate speech is free speech. Trump: Probably go after people like you, you treat me unfairly, you have hate in your heart. ABC paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech, your company paid me 16 million for a form of hate speech, maybe they'll go after you.”
How bout’ the stock market! It’s been Crickets recently from the butthurt mob. Shame.
Stock market update (in remembrance of Agip) - daily all-time highs for all 3 indexes. Every day it seems the market has all-time highs. The Dems/Libs were celebrating the market's tanking a few months ago but they have gone on to the Epstein files. Or ... have they moved on from that? Maybe they will go back to the Mueller investigation? LOL.
“Reporter: What do you make of Bondi saying she is going after hate speech, a lot of allies say hate speech is free speech. Trump: Probably go after people like you, you treat me unfairly, you have hate in your heart. ABC paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech, your company paid me 16 million for a form of hate speech, maybe they'll go after you.”
We've played the game before...
But if Obama had said that to a Fox News reporter, we know how the right would have responded.
When it's their guy (because of course it NEVER would have been Obama) we hear crickets.
JUST IN: Trump launches a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times — naming reporters Peter Baker, Michael Schmidt, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner — because he doesn't like what they have written/reported about him.
1. On November 5, 2024, President Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election over Vice President Kamala Harris in historic fashion, emerging victorious in both the Electoral College and the popular vote, and securing a resounding mandate from the American people. President Trump trounced Harris with 312 electoral votes and a sweep of all seven “battleground” states. This victory was remarkable for many historic reasons, including because President Trump had to overcome persistent election interference from the legacy media, led most notoriously by the New York Times.
2. With the overwhelming victory, President Trump secured the greatest personal and political achievement in American history. All across our country, Americans from a wide array of backgrounds saw the truth about him and voted accordingly—the same truth that the New York Times refused to recognize as it continued spreading false and defamatory content about President Trump.
3. There was a time, long ago, when the New York Times was considered the “newspaper of record,” and its editors dutifully adhered to the motto “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” Those halcyon days have passed. Whatever the historical merit of this self-congratulation, the Times has betrayed the journalistic ideals of honesty, objectivity, and accuracy that it once professed. Today, the Times is a fullthroated mouthpiece of the Democrat Party. The newspaper’s editorial routine is now one of industrial-scale defamation and libel against political opponents. As such, the Times has become a leading, and unapologetic, purveyor of falsehoods against President Trump on the legacy media landscape.
19. President Trump is a citizen of the United States, a resident of the State of Florida, the 45th President of the United States of America, and, having handily won the 2024 Presidential Election despite Defendants’ best efforts to the contrary, is the 47th President of the United States. In addition to his unprecedented political success, President Trump is universally known for his decades of remarkable business achievements, particularly at the helm of the world-renowned Trump Organization, with its worldwide portfolio of luxury real estate holdings. Having long established himself as a global celebrity, he then revolutionized television as the star of “The Apprentice.” President Trump continues to redefine what is possible in business and media, including with his founding, and powerful use, of the immensely successful social media platform, Truth Social.
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21. Indeed, ABC News not only made a $15 million settlement payment but also paid an additional $1 million in legal fees and published a statement of regret for the abhorrent defamation of President Trump by George Stephanopoulos during a March 2024 segment of ABC’s This Week. “Under the terms of [the] settlement . . . ABC News will donate the $15 million to [President] Trump’s future presidential foundation and museum. The network and its star anchor, George Stephanopoulos, also published a statement saying they ‘regret’ remarks made about Mr. Trump during a televised interview in March.” See Grynbaum and Feuer, ABC to Pay $15 Million to Settle a Defamation Suit Brought by Trump, supra.
22. Paramount and CBS News, for their part, made a $16 million settlement for their deceptive tampering with the infamous 60 Minutes interview of failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris and subsequent concealment of the unedited interview transcript. Additionally, consistent with President Trump’s steadfast commitment to ensure accurate and fair reporting that serves the public good, he secured as part of the settlement a landmark new transparency Rule requiring CBS News to promptly release unedited transcripts of its future presidential interviews. “Paramount said late Tuesday that it had agreed to pay President Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of an interview on the CBS News program ’60 Minutes,’ an extraordinary concession to a sitting president by a major media organization . . . . As part of the settlement, Paramount said, it agreed to release written transcripts of future ’60 Minutes’ interviews with presidential candidates.” See Mullin, Grynbaum, Hirsch and Enrich, Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ’60 Minutes’ Lawsuit, supra.
59. President Trump has utilized his business and real estate acumen to grow his business and holdings across America and internationally, including Ireland, Oman, Scotland, Vietnam, and Dubai. Trump properties include majestic buildings, bespoke resorts, world-class golf courses, and elite restaurants.
60. After leaving office in 2021, President Trump began new business ventures, ranging from social media enterprises (Truth Social) to crypto projects ($TRUMP).
61. As evidenced by the meteoric rise of Truth Social, President Trump’s business success resonates in the American collective consciousness, his winning appeal to the electorate is based, in significant part, on his getting unmatched results across various and multiple industries. Without being involved in day to day operations, President Trump with his brand and social media prowess alone propelled the company to great success—even after several of the company’s early directors had already inflicted incalculable harm on the nascent business.
62. These diverse businesses depend on public patronage and public participation for their revenue; in turn, the demand to visit Trump Organization properties depends in large part on President Trump’s well-earned reputation as a shrewd businessman—and his name’s association with excellence, luxury, and elegance—which have proven vital to the values of many of these businesses and properties. President Trump prides himself on having a reputation for high standards, excellence, and consumer satisfaction; statements falsely casting aspersions on President Trump’s reputation as a businessman or the Trump Organization’s legitimacy therefore cause direct and easily foreseeable harm to these businesses’ value, revenue, and profitability.
“Reporter: What do you make of Bondi saying she is going after hate speech, a lot of allies say hate speech is free speech. Trump: Probably go after people like you, you treat me unfairly, you have hate in your heart. ABC paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech, your company paid me 16 million for a form of hate speech, maybe they'll go after you.”
We've played the game before...
But if Obama had said that to a Fox News reporter, we know how the right would have responded.
When it's their guy (because of course it NEVER would have been Obama) we hear crickets.
Yes. It is true that we have been here before with Trump and the hypocrisy is noted.
However we see Trump emboldened these days in a way that makes some of histories most vile authoritarians seem polite, measured and diplomatic in their statements. The stuff coming out of Trump mouth is straight up insane for a US president and for a country that pretends to believe we don’t have kings and the ruler serves the people.
Don’t see how the US ever goes back to the belief of 3 separate coequal branches of government where the people are represented in congress and the Senate.
AdultInThRoom bro you need to leave your room and meet some people. This good and evil thing you keep doing. You realize this is the division you keep talking about, right? All this talk of all Democrats being evil and whatnot. This is all coming from you man. You are the one sowing division here.
JUST IN: Trump launches a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times — naming reporters Peter Baker, Michael Schmidt, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner — because he doesn't like what they have written/reported about him.
I highly recommend that anyone with an interest in legal matters read this lawsuit. Especially our armchair board lawyers.
This is incredible.
It is a lawsuit that makes almost no legal arguments. It reads like Trump wrote it and even incudes how he had a historic election win. (He didn’t). Essentially the logic is that because he won biggly then nobody should be able to write negative stuff about him.
It’s obvious that the Trump legal team has no desire whatsoever for any of these filings to ever be adjudicated. They are just extortion tools now.
They are fkn psychopaths justifying murder. The representatives they vote for turned down a moment of fkn silence for an American who will have the largest memorial service in the History of mankind. This is all anyone needs to know about a Democrat.
We will end their party and end their dreams. One vote at a time.
It is sickening. I felt nauseous last week. We are now living in a country where you have to fear your life for speaking. As much as I hate AOC or Waltz I would never pray for them to be assassinated, then celebrate it. You can see by all the thumbs downs on here who are indoctrinated by the virus. Controlled by the algorithm. I like what I saw from the U.K. but the time to act is now before it is too late. This generation of dems have become uncontrollably immature and hypocritical, soulless, lost, careless and full of hate. They need God.
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JUST IN: Trump launches a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times — naming reporters Peter Baker, Michael Schmidt, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner — because he doesn't like what they have written/reported about him.
Do you know how you made Kash Patel and other podcasters quite wealthy as podcasters by buying into his rants that the Epstien Files would be released and would reveal a deep state trafficking operation run by the left?
How do you feel about Kash as head of the FBI now in front of congress saying that there is no credible evidence that Epstein trafficked underage girls to anyone but himself? All the perps simply don't exist now.
1. On November 5, 2024, President Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election over Vice President Kamala Harris in historic fashion, emerging victorious in both the Electoral College and the popular vote, and securing a resounding mandate from the American people. President Trump trounced Harris with 312 electoral votes and a sweep of all seven “battleground” states. This victory was remarkable for many historic reasons, including because President Trump had to overcome persistent election interference from the legacy media, led most notoriously by the New York Times.
2. With the overwhelming victory, President Trump secured the greatest personal and political achievement in American history. All across our country, Americans from a wide array of backgrounds saw the truth about him and voted accordingly—the same truth that the New York Times refused to recognize as it continued spreading false and defamatory content about President Trump.
3. There was a time, long ago, when the New York Times was considered the “newspaper of record,” and its editors dutifully adhered to the motto “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” Those halcyon days have passed. Whatever the historical merit of this self-congratulation, the Times has betrayed the journalistic ideals of honesty, objectivity, and accuracy that it once professed. Today, the Times is a fullthroated mouthpiece of the Democrat Party. The newspaper’s editorial routine is now one of industrial-scale defamation and libel against political opponents. As such, the Times has become a leading, and unapologetic, purveyor of falsehoods against President Trump on the legacy media landscape.
Sometimes it is difficult to tell. Are you mocking Trump by posting those words?
“Reporter: What do you make of Bondi saying she is going after hate speech, a lot of allies say hate speech is free speech. Trump: Probably go after people like you, you treat me unfairly, you have hate in your heart. ABC paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech, your company paid me 16 million for a form of hate speech, maybe they'll go after you.”
We've played the game before...
But if Obama had said that to a Fox News reporter, we know how the right would have responded.
When it's their guy (because of course it NEVER would have been Obama) we hear crickets.
Thing is, of course, that it's not necessarily just "the right" (presuming that one means the slightly farther reaches of the right). The weeks and months of the, "Sure, I'll be an open authoritarian administration" go on, the approval rating never dips a whole lot (if at all).
We're a country where somewhere between 45 and 50% of the population is OK with a felon, authoritarian, pathological liar, etc., etc.
We wake up everyday hoping that SOMEHOW that will change.....but yeah, it probably won't.
As always, I think, a truly good American's only hope is that selfish financial concerns get at least a few people to vote in civically responsible ways.
But it looks like it will NEVER be because a majority of this country is civically responsible (or, for that matter, ethical, moral, etc.).
