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sabra

(30,406 posts)
Tue Dec 8, 2020, 10:58 AM Dec 2020

Christopher Krebs, a fired Trump official, sues the campaign and the lawyer who said he should be ..

Source: NYT

In late November, one day after Christopher Krebs, the former head of the government’s cybersecurity agency, went on “60 Minutes” to dispute President Trump’s claims of fraud in the election, one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers threatened him on television.

“He should be drawn and quartered,” the lawyer, Joseph DiGenova, said of Mr. Krebs on the conservative TV outlet Newsmax. “Taken out at dawn and shot.”

On Tuesday, Mr. Krebs, who was fired by Mr. Trump last month, filed a lawsuit against Mr. DiGenova accusing him and the Trump campaign of defamation and the infliction of emotional distress.

The lawsuit, which seeks monetary damages and the removal of the threatening video from the Newsmax archives, also made a far more extraordinary claim: that Mr. Trump, members of his legal team and Newsmax have been engaging in “a calculated and pernicious conspiracy” to defame and injure not just Mr. Krebs but other members of the Republican Party who have stood up against the president’s baseless claims of fraud.



Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/briefing/chris-krebs-defamation-lawsuit.html

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mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. Don't see how that claim is in any way extraordinary in fact it's pretty obvious
Tue Dec 8, 2020, 11:01 AM
Dec 2020

he's doing exactly that.

Good job with the framing there NYT.

 

oldsoftie

(13,538 posts)
6. Good. Its time for people to do this when it gets out of hand. I'm sick of it.
Tue Dec 8, 2020, 12:36 PM
Dec 2020

I'm a criticizer too, but when you start getting violent you deserve to be held accountable.

Martin Eden

(13,782 posts)
7. It's worse than defamation; it's stochastic terrorism
Tue Dec 8, 2020, 01:00 PM
Dec 2020

Rightwing nutjobs are being incited to commit acts of domestic terrorism. People who are just doing their civic duty are going to be killed.

NewJeffCT

(56,842 posts)
9. Given Donny's history
Tue Dec 8, 2020, 01:32 PM
Dec 2020

Krebs will win the multi-milion lawsuit and the Trump campaign will then declare bankruptcy and say that they can't pay.

Judi Lynn

(162,858 posts)
12. DiGenova is as confused as Rudy. He doesn't know what "draw and quarter" means.
Tue Dec 8, 2020, 05:46 PM
Dec 2020


Draw and quarter.

Shooting him:



Doesn't seem there is enough room to draw and quarter him indoors, before taking him out at dawn and shooting him.

It would take four or more men to scoop him up, then take "hims" out to shoot.

Sure, it's easy for Joseph DiGenova to say. Rudy, too.



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