{"id":54983,"date":"2022-10-04T11:18:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54983"},"modified":"2022-10-04T11:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:23:19","slug":"after-goofy-lawuit-against-cnn-trump-threatens-more-suits-including-the-january-6th-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54983","title":{"rendered":"After Goofy Lawsuit Against CNN, Trump Threatens More Suits, Including the January 6th Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pathologically litigious former reality TV game show host, Donald Trump, has revealed his latest legal lunacy. In a typically amateurish 28 page filing<\/a><\/strong>, Trump announced that he is suing CNN, claiming defamation and seeking punitive damages of $475 million.<\/p>\n

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That’s right. Trump is suing the network that he has defamed hundreds of times as “fake”<\/em> and “the enemy of the people”<\/em> for defamation. His new complaint comes less than a month after another lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, and nearly fifty other people who the suit describes as “her cohorts,”<\/em> was laughed out of court. The judge ruled that Trump was just “seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him.”<\/em><\/p>\n

RELATED: Trump\u2019s Loopy Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton and \u2018Her Cohorts\u2019 Reads Like Sleazy Pulp Fiction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump’s filing begins with a paragraph that is wholly saturated with political, rather than legal, arguments. He starts off saying that “The Plaintiff, President Donald J. Trump, has been a long-time critic of the Defendant, Cable News Network, Inc. (\u201cCNN\u201d)”<\/em> So what? What does that have to do with any rational assertion of defamation? He continued…<\/p>\n

“The Plaintiff, President Donald J. Trump, has been a long-time critic of the Defendant, Cable News Network, Inc. (\u201cCNN\u201d) \u2014 not because CNN does a bad job of reporting the news, but because CNN seeks to create the news (\u201cfake news,\u201d as the Plaintiff has characterized it in public statements). Beyond simply highlighting any negative information about the Plaintiff and ignoring all positive information about him, CNN has sought to use its massive influence\u2014 purportedly as a \u2018trusted\u2019 news source\u2014to defame the Plaintiff in the minds of its viewers and readers for the purpose of defeating him politically. […]<\/p>\n

“CNN has tried to taint the Plaintiff with a series of ever-more scandalous, false, and defamatory labels of ‘racist,’ \u2018Russian lackey,\u2019 \u2018insurrectionist,\u2019 and ultimately \u2018Hitler.\u2019”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, Trump’s description of CNN as having “massive influence”<\/em> is a contradiction of his repeated insults over the years calling CNN a failing news enterprise with terrible ratings that nobody watches.<\/p>\n

More to the point, the crux of Trump’s complaint is that CNN’s use of labels describing him as a “racist,” “Russian lackey,” “insurrectionist,”<\/em> and comparable to Hitler are defamatory. Apparently his lawyers have not advised him that the truth is a solid defense against allegations of defamation. And there is abundant evidence that CNN’s labels are accurate. It should be interesting to see the court proceedings as that evidence is presented.<\/p>\n

Trump’s announcement of this lawsuit was made on his floundering social media scam, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>. In his tedious and infantile fashion, Trump whined<\/a> that…<\/p>\n

“A lawsuit was filed today against CNN, the once prestigious news channel that has devolved into a purveyor of disinformation, defamation, and Fake News, at a level which the American Public, and indeed the World, will not even believe is possible.” […]<\/p>\n

“In the coming weeks and months we will also be filing lawsuits against a large number of other Fake News Media Companies for their lies, defamation, and wrongdoing, including as it pertains to \u2018The Big Lie,\u2019 that they used so often in reference to their disinformation attack on Presidential Election of 2020.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump didn’t bother to identify any of the other media companies that he is threatening to sue. But Trump’s animosity toward the press will surely provide him with a long list of what he regards as offending enterprises. We can assume that it won’t include Fox News, which has been documented to have disseminated more lies, disinformation, and propaganda than any other “news”<\/em> organization. If Trump’s suit against CNN were successful, Fox News better look out. Then he continued…<\/p>\n

Likewise, we may bring appropriate action against the Unselect Committee of January 6th because, notwithstanding overwhelming evidence, they REFUSED to investigate the massive Presidential Election Fraud which took place, but only investigate and harass the people and Patriots who complained and asked questions about it. The rigging and stealing of our Presidential Election was perhaps The Crime Of The Century, and look at what is happening to our Country now!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Trump thinks he can sue Congress because it isn’t investigating the people he wants them to investigate. Never mind that there isn’t a shred of evidence to support any of his allegations that there was any “rigging and stealing of our Presidential Election.”<\/em> But he still wasn’t finished…<\/p>\n

“The Unselect Committee has refused to acknowledge, as was done by the Biden Inspector General at the Department of Defense, and others, that days ahead of January 6th, I recommended and authorized thousands of troops to be deployed to ensure that there was peace, safety, and security at the Capitol and throughout the Country. That offer of the national guard was rejected by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Mayor Bowser of Washington, D.C. – The law requires their request, they failed to make one, and in turn failed the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This charge that Speaker Pelosi was responsible for the January 6th insurrection has been debunked repeatedly. PolitiFact’s detailed analysis<\/a><\/strong> documented that there is no record of Trump authorizing 20,000 National Guard troops, no evidence that Pelosi denied such an authorization, and that she doesn\u2019t have the authority to do so in the first place.<\/p>\n

It’s also curious that Trump’s bogus complaint is essentially that Pelosi didn’t sufficiently protect the Capitol from his violent supporters. He’s admitting that he knew his cult followers posed a risk significant enough to require thousands of National Guard troops to suppress.<\/p>\n

Trump’s filling also contains this morsel: “CNN has been given the dreaded ‘Pants on Fire!’ designation by PolitiFact for its stories comparing Trump to Hitler.”<\/em> He’s referring to segment wherein a guest on CNN said that Trump “may be responsible for many more million deaths” than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Stelter responds to people asking why he did not interrupt Frances after the line: https:\/\/t.co\/FcVxncCvPp<\/a><\/p>\n

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) August 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n