About That Trump 'Suing WSJ For Libel' Thing

One of the many problems with disgraced twice-elected (kinda?), twice-impeached, quintuply-indicted, 80-something-ily charged jury-convicted 34-count felon and adjudicated rapist The Orange Clown suing the media for libel is going to be his own record, when you think about it.

“Grab ‘em by the the pussy” is in the public record; it’s been broadcast. It is not a lie that he said it.

As a proud graduate of the Innernets School of Law, I have figured out that the core principle in libel actions is that the libel must be published, but publish in this instance means to make public. So to prove libel, you have to prove that the other party lied about you, publicized the lie with malicious intent.

Our pals at Electoral-Vote says, “He would have to prove that he was (financially) damaged and that the newspaper’s staff either knew the document was a fake, or else that they would have known but for being reckless in their regard for the truth.”

One of the many problems with disgraced twice-elected (kinda?), twice-impeached, quintuply-indicted, 80-something-ily charged jury-convicted 34-count felon and adjudicated rapist The Orange ? suing the media for libel is going to be his own record, when you think about it.

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