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TaterBake

(56 posts)
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 03:14 AM Dec 2016

So Melania Trump Is Suing A Blogger For Slandering Her

If that is ok, according to Kellyanne Conway, then why doesn't Hillary sue the 1,000 "outlets" that lied about and slandered her.

Peter Thiel sued Gawker out of business. To take them out was his goal.

Maybe Fox should be sued by every single person who they lied about.

I watched Oliver North claim that John Kerry was a war criminal.

Start there John.

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So Melania Trump Is Suing A Blogger For Slandering Her (Original Post) TaterBake Dec 2016 OP
i think that really needs to happen. barbtries Dec 2016 #1
Maybe everyone should start suing bloggers and "news" outlets who make lives miserable by Vinca Dec 2016 #2
Yes, that's the one, and she's no only suing the blogger; she's suing the Daily Mail who repeated it muriel_volestrangler Dec 2016 #3
Cosmo Pizza mercuryblues Dec 2016 #4
Yes! He should sue Alex Jones ASAP! Madam45for2923 Dec 2016 #6
Cosmo Pizza? Ptah Dec 2016 #13
An excellent idea, really DFW Dec 2016 #5
Most of the fake news stories Calista241 Dec 2016 #7
i fear the courts will be all we have left. mopinko Dec 2016 #8
But All The Judges Were Appointed By Republicans TaterBake Dec 2016 #15
Does this mean the defendant get's discovery? eniwetok Dec 2016 #9
Probably just trying to get a nest egg madokie Dec 2016 #10
High Treason Ollie North . . .. claimed John KERRY was a war criminal. HughBeaumont Dec 2016 #11
And Martha Raddatz should sue Donald Trump. Baitball Blogger Dec 2016 #12
Ok. . . . BigDemVoter Dec 2016 #14
Is this her own idea? dragonlady Dec 2016 #16
She went to court herself. She could have said "no." BigDemVoter Dec 2016 #17
It's a thought. Fight fire with fire?? LAS14 Dec 2016 #18

barbtries

(28,815 posts)
1. i think that really needs to happen.
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 07:49 AM
Dec 2016

how many pro bono lawyers are out there to do this work?
they are clearly trying to suppress free speech, one of our most precious rights. dread stalks me day and night.

Vinca

(50,319 posts)
2. Maybe everyone should start suing bloggers and "news" outlets who make lives miserable by
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 08:20 AM
Dec 2016

creating repulsive, fake stories that send lunatics to harass people and even threaten their lives. If the person Melania is suing is the one who said she was a call girl, I don't blame her. This has got to stop. I just read about a Jewish family driven out of some town because fake news said they caused a Christmas event to be cancelled. Some lady in Maine is getting death threats because her phone number was mistakenly put on a web site about a story the nutjobs didn't like. Hillary and John Podesta SHOULD sue whoever created the pizza store pedophile ring story. It's gone from entertaining to funny to costing us the election of a guy who's talking about nuclear weapons as if they're Lego pieces.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,392 posts)
3. Yes, that's the one, and she's no only suing the blogger; she's suing the Daily Mail who repeated it
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 09:14 AM
Dec 2016

and they are one of the biggest news sites in the world.

mercuryblues

(14,550 posts)
4. Cosmo Pizza
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 09:27 AM
Dec 2016

should sue Alex Jones. His outrageous lies caused a man with a gun to enter his business and shoot. Luckily at the ceiling. I am sure there has been a drop off in business since that incident.

DFW

(54,451 posts)
5. An excellent idea, really
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 09:42 AM
Dec 2016

Using the courts to sue for every perceived slight is ridiculous of course, but using it back on them tenfold might slow down their eagerness to use it unilaterally. To paraphrase Hammurabi, a suit for suit. And Fox Noise is low-hanging fruit--practically touching the ground, in their case.

Calista241

(5,586 posts)
7. Most of the fake news stories
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 09:48 AM
Dec 2016

Came from a bunch of students at a university in Macedonia. They did it to make money from Google Adwords campaigns. Even if they sued them and won, they'd get almost nothing. And then some other kids in a random country somewhere will do the same thing.

mopinko

(70,275 posts)
8. i fear the courts will be all we have left.
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 11:19 AM
Dec 2016

will be a great era for lawyers. good thing we have a glut.

 

TaterBake

(56 posts)
15. But All The Judges Were Appointed By Republicans
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 12:15 PM
Dec 2016

And are more Republican Scum than actual judges.

Party before justice......

eniwetok

(1,629 posts)
9. Does this mean the defendant get's discovery?
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 11:21 AM
Dec 2016

So as part of this lawsuit, does the defendant get discovery rights to probe into Melanoma's past?

madokie

(51,076 posts)
10. Probably just trying to get a nest egg
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 11:28 AM
Dec 2016

so she can get the fuck out of here.
She can't be happy, down deep inside with the tRump cretin, no way no how can she.

BigDemVoter

(4,157 posts)
14. Ok. . . .
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 12:03 PM
Dec 2016

I have refrained from criticizing this woman, as she didn't run for president nor did she ask to do so.

NONETHELESS. . . . She is married to the President Elect of the USA, and this is DISGUSTING behavior from a woman who stood by and lectured everybody about BULLYING while her PIG of a husband is the worst abuser in the country. What a disgrace.

She should go back to her "film career" and not embarrass us any more.

BigDemVoter

(4,157 posts)
17. She went to court herself. She could have said "no."
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 06:35 PM
Dec 2016

She is responsible for her own actions.

While she's not the one in office, she is just a slight bit less noxious than her awful pig of a husband.

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