OFFICIAL LRC President Donald Trump SECOND TERM Thread

4. It came as no surprise when, shortly before the Election, the newspaper
published, on the front page, highlighted in a location never seen before, its deranged
endorsement of Kamala Harris with the hyperbolic opening line “[i]t is hard to
imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than
Donald Trump.”

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6. The subject matter of this action—a malicious, defamatory, and
disparaging book written by two of its reporters and three false, malicious,
defamatory, and disparaging articles, all carefully crafted by Defendants, with actual
malice, calculated to inflict maximum damage upon President Trump, and all
published during the height of a Presidential Election that became the most
consequential in American history—represent a new journalistic low for the
hopelessly compromised and tarnished “Gray Lady.” Defendants’ pre-election goal
was to kill three birds with one stone: (a) damage President Trump’s hard-earned
and world-renowned reputation for business success, (b) in the process, sabotage his
2024 candidacy for President of the United States, and (c) prejudice judges and juries
in the unlawful cases brought against President Trump, his family, and his businesses
by his political opponents for purposes of election interference. With President
Trump having won the Presidency, Defendants’ goals remain similar and unlawful: tarnish his legacy of achievement, destroy his reputation as a successful
businessman, and subject him to humiliation and ridicule.

11. ...Defendants could not accept President Trump’s win in 2016 and could not fathom his winning again by a landslide, which is what the American people chose to make reality. Hence, Defendants’ desperate need to defame with a partisan spear rather than report with
an authentic looking glass.

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.

Once again, demonstrating that the authors of the complaint did not know what "actual malice" means under the law.

I have to think that President Trump told the lawyers what to put in the complaint. A "landslide" that got fewer than 50% of the votes cast? Riiiiight.

Idiotic post with idiotic ideas (especially pretending Biden was involved). You appear to know absolutely nothing about civil litigation: what a claim is, what damages are, what a settlement is, what a summary judgment is, what a trial is, or what measuring risk is.

Settling for $780,000,00 (780 million) in lieu of a trial is hardly an indication of lack of an actual case. Everyone except you would consider such a massive settlement BEFORE trial to be massive win, and also a pretty clear indicator of what Fox News thought of their defenses AFTER they LOST their summary judgment motions. Normal people don't write checks for $780,000,000 if they haven't done major illegal sh!t.

The deliberate lies that Fox presented -- in contradiction of its own internal fact checking department's analysis and memos -- are too legion to go over. You'd have to read the entire summary judgment order (linked below), which I know from experience is something that a MAGA never does. Here it is anyway.

documentcloud.org

Dominion v. Fox summary judgment

Open link

You MAGAs should get over your fear of reading, because this document shows how Fox has deliberately lied to you guys when selling you sh!t you want to hear. They even laugh at you guys. Serious scamming and playing its customers.

Oh, you mean Fox News?

Bro can’t respond. Can only control c and control v. No thinking allowed.

So you’re saying Trump did not have an actual case against CBS or ABC, but E. Jean Carroll had an actual case against Trump?

Lolz

Karl: You've said you restored free speech in America. Is that free speech including for people who are harshly critical of you?
Trump: I've become immune to it… That's why your network paid me $16 million.. That's why CBS paid me a lot of money too. And that's why I sued The New York Times
Karl: The judge threw it out
Trump: I’m winning…. And for you to stand there and act so innocent and ask me a question like that… The reason I won that lawsuit is you were proven to be dishonest. You’re not a wonderful person. You’re a terrible reporter. You know it and I know it.

One example is FOX News. They knowingly lied on air repeatedly about the 2020 election. The disclosure for the lawsuit they settled for $780M showed the lying was internally known and intentional.

Why isn't Trump punishing them for intentional partisan lies if that is the problem? Yet he filed a lawsuit against NYT without naming any false information - the legally required bar.

Fox settled to avoid more disclosure of their lying to the public. They knew they were going to lose. Dominion got a quick settlement for half the amount of the suit and avoided millions in legal fees in a dragged out court battle. Fox got to stop more information release about their lying and probably saved money.

The Biden Admin had nothing to do with that lawsuit, nor did they directly prosecute Fox for it's lies, though it might have been able to win based on the info Dominion released. Nor did they threaten FCC action.

Oh, haven't we gone over this already? Reading and thinking are hard.

Plus, if they *did* read, they might see some things that they didn't *want* to be true. So reading is really a lose-lose proposition for them. Come on, be fair.

Put Grandpa to bed…

Trump: "When 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech."

Just heard Mike Pence condemn the Kimmel firing.

Is he now Aunt Tifa?

I think this is mostly accurate, though largely ignoring the drawbacks that tariffs can also have. For one, a tariff might reduce the nominal tax burden on citizens, but it just substitutes another--and the people bearing the brunt of the tariff-tax are often those who are less able to handle it.

The real problem is that the discussion of tariffs above does not describe what's happening with them in the USA right now. "Wisely"? "Strategically"? "[Only] critical sectors"?
"[T]ailored to specific industries and strategic goals rather than applied broadly"? Hardly.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and the proof of tariff policy is whether domestic production and (especially) employment increase more than they otherwise would have.

And, in fact, manufacturing employment is down by 78,000 in 2025.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Here is one thing I never understood about Trump and Trumpers.

They are always crying and moaning about how all the media is negative about him. Let’s put aside whether the stories about Trump are accurate or not. Let’s focus on the unfairness that he keeps saying is the problem.

How in the hell does Trump expect everyone to write wonderful stories about him when he literally sh!ts on everyone all the time?

Think about it. No guy in history publicly sh!ts on more people every time he opens his mouth. And Trumpers regularly acknowledge that is what they love about him.

Any human being that sh!ts on so many people should kinda expect people to widely despise you. It’s simple math.

Yup, Pence is definitely Antifa. It’s a well known fact. He’s been part of that organization since January 2021. What is a bit more surprising is Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson are also Antifa—they just joined this week apparently.