Trump threatens to sue over 'nasty' campaign ads

[Liberal_in_LA]

Speaking at a rally in Henderson, Nev., the GOP presidential nominee insisted he would help veterans if elected and complained that he was unfairly targeted by negative advertising.

“And then I saw today ... a commercial where — it was really a nasty commercial, totally made up, about me with vets,” Trump said.

“There is nobody that loves the vets more or respects the vets more. They’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on false commercials, and it’s a disgrace. So what we’ll do, I guess we’ll sue them. Let’s sue them.”

It was not immediately clear which ad Trump was referring to.

At last week’s first presidential debate, Trump complained that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton runs “very nasty commercials that you do on me in so many different ways, which I don't do on you.”

He did not make clear at the time which ads he was referring to. Many of Clinton’s attack ads use footage of Trump speaking.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/299473-trump-threatens-to-sue-over-nasty-campaign-ads

[Curtland1015]

1. Pretty much ALL of our "attack ads" are Trump speaking. For a good reason.

They're just showing what HE said.

If it seems particularly tasteless and "nasty" to him, perhaps he should look in the mirror.

[BSdetect]

40. His hilarious empty threat ranting can also be made into a nice new video ad.

Thanks for the extra idea and content drumph.

[radius777]

2. this coming from a guy whose entire campaign

has been about using conspiracy theories and tabloid rumors to attack/meme his opponent.

Trump can threaten to sue all he wants, the courts will laugh in his face, he's a public figure running for a political office.

[lovemydog]

3. He can shove it up his litigious ass.

[Democat]

4. He would have to sue himself, he stars in most of the ads

Is he calling himself "nasty"?

[sarae]

8. ^THIS^

What he said makes no sense...except the part where he calls himself "nasty".

[cstanleytech]

12. When has he ever said anything that made sense?

Take the whole wall building thing for example, the jobs anyone who comes here illegally take dont really cost US citizens anything nor do any services they use cost much compared to the cost of building and maintaining a wall along the border with Mexico especially since such a wall can just be tunneled under.
Not to mention his ridiculous statement that he would get Mexico to pay for it.

[DemonGoddess]

5. He can sit on

something sharp and pointy and rotate. Sue for using his own words against him? What a jackass.

[Third Doctor]

6. Wow

He's whining about personal attacks that use his own words. He slanders anyone he wants to and expects to get away with it. Trump chose to run for President and now he's but hurt.

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[dubyadiprecession]

7. Isn't he supposed to be against political correctness?

These commercials, all star Donnie the loser with his shithole for a mouth!

[BumRushDaShow]

9. "He did not make clear at the time which ads he was referring to"

Lazy ass The Hill needs to just go on youtube and find the vet-themed ads themselves. There are a couple and they had been running here in Philly for several weeks (we recently started seeing the ones directed to young women/girls).

[jcgoldie]

10. He's right about one thing

All the ads I've seen paste together clips of Trump himself talking. He's our number one surrogate. And he's right, he says some nasty shit in them.

[Cha]

11. trump's a whiner and now he's whining about himself saying

"nasty things".

[NewJeffCT]

29. yes, he is a big baby

[Cha]

33. lol.. perfect! he's a rat******

too.

[Historic NY]

13. He should sue himself.

[Aviation Pro]

14. Awwww

You gonna cry little Trumpy? C'mon let's see some tears.

[Politicub]

15. It's gratifying seeing everything get under his thin skin

If you can't stand the heat Donald, slither back to your gilded, taxpayer-funded penthouse.

[Monk06]

16. Can't sue if it's true

[Helen Borg]

17. Waaaa! They slandered me!

[Mc Mike]

24. Is li'l donnie rahowahhhh ing again?

I just saw David Pakman talking about the VP debate, where Tim Kaine rattled off a long list of d Rump's campaign insults, against Mexicans, Women, POWs, African Americans, Prez Obama. Then Pence said "I was just listening to the avalanche of insults coming out of Senator Kaine". He made the statement with his oily, unctuous, greasy, polished bircher politician little smile and smooth delivery style.

David said that after Kaine listed the large number of insults, Pence acted like Tim Kaine mentioning those insults was "insulting or offensive." "Wahhhhh! How dare you insult us by listing our insults! Insulting people is a terrible thing to do, it runs counter to our repuglican values!"

They have the intellect and mentality of a grade-school bully slapping a smaller kid's face with the smaller kid's own hand, and saying simultaneously "stop hitting yourself." There's no argument to be had based on the proposition that the smaller kid is or isn't hitting themselves.

Ms. Quijano could have earned points as a moderator if she would have just interjected "those are insults from your campaign, Governor, not insults from your opponent against your campaign." She's shooting for Pelley Mitchell Matthews status, though, she isn't aspiring to be like Maddow, Reid, O'Brien. So she'll let the repugs' elementary school yard bully lies go unchallenged, coz she can suck up to the Mellon family more that way.

[tanyev]

18. You go for it, Donald. Please.

[alcibiades_mystery]

19. I've said before that the negative ads are destroying him, and people say No, no, he's teflon

Bullshit. He's getting eviscerated. And it's smart, good politics.

The Trump camp is flapping around like fish out of water.

Beautiful.

[njcpa1978]

20. Hillary is SOOOO nasty

Trump announced today that he was going to tell his mommy that Hillary is running nasty commercials. And also she pulled his pony tail during Civics class today. Poor Mr. Nice Guy got his feelings hurt.

[Vinca]

21. I wish he would. I'd love to watch a lawsuit where someone sues because of his own words.

[msanthrope]

22. bring it on you thin skinned mother fucker. nt

[reflection]

23. Is he also going to sue the producers of Willy Wonka

for copyright infringement of tiny, orange-skinned people?

[JHB]

25. Weak. Pathetic. Really, really pathetic.

Big league pathetic. Bigly weak.

I'd normally blame Newt's influence for this "anyone who quotes me is lying" tactic, but Don has used frivolous lawsuits for decades to intimidate people.

Psst, Don, that only works when you're up against somebody small, with few resources and no publicity. You seem to have forgotten that it doesn't apply here.

Sad!

[vinny9698]

26. Political speech is protected:1800 election set the standard. raised on hoe cakes

Now these are nasty political ads.

[apcalc]

27. Sue baby, sue! Bring it on!

In a way I hope he does, and gets totally humiliated by Hillary, someone he can't bully.

[etherealtruth]

28. He is a buffoon

[C_U_L8R]

30. No wonder he loses so much money

Trump clearly isn't very smart

[raging moderate]

31. "Who is Donald Trump, and why is he saying all these terrible things about me?"

There was a movie, a few decades ago, about a man with a similar problem. It turned out, of course, that he was somehow snitching on himself, in an altered state.

[True Dough]

32. I read through all of these responses

and I'm pleased to be in the company of so many people who revile this turd as much as I do. What a LOSER!!

[liberal N proud]

34. Typical bully Trump

[Nitram]

35. The blowhard just keep faking it. You can't sue someone for quoting you.

[mrJJ]

36. Sue This...

If you can't stand heat, get out of the kitchen.
If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.

...in Trumps case..
In his 5th Ave Ivory Tower Looking down on the little people...


"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes." Leona Helmsley.

[sinkingfeeling]

37. What will that be? Pending suit number 52,736?

[Buns_of_Fire]

38. That's nothing. On November 9 he's going to sue everybody who didn't vote for him. nt

[Panich52]

39. A sane person would learn to stop saying things so easily used against them

[Wounded Bear]

41. Proceed, Mr Trump....nt

[RaymondLuxuryYacht]

42. Remember when the GOP was against frivolous lawsuits?

Me too.

I was coming to post this article. Glad someone beat me to it.

I also remember when the repunks made it difficult for people to declare bankruptcy. But that was when YOU couldn't pay your hospital bill when your appendix burst, not when you gambled by borrowing money to buy a casino and lost.

The swine do look almost human.

[Gothmog]

43. Trump is a crybaby