I assume there’s a lawyer out there prepping the defamation suits?
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Aaron Rupar
Fox News has resorted to just straight up lying about Abrego Garcia, who has never been convicted or even charged with a crime
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/27/nyregion/roberta-kaplan-lawyer-carroll-trump-trial.html
@kathryntewson.bsky.social , any interest?
I will delete and beg for forgiveness first
This is why we ask her to help draft.
He ever get in any trouble for basically confirming to everyone what the settlement was? Since it wasn't supposed to be disclosed (I know not all settlements have to be kept secret, depends on the agreement, but I think that one was?).
CNN LAW PERSON: We could probably claw the $25k back.
EXEC: How much spent on law person time?
LAW PERSON: lol
EXEC: rofl
ROD STERLING: His crime? Being Lin Wood. His punishment? Being Lin Wood.
I was front row.
I know. I know. Nevermind.
If memory serves, he didn't like that.
It's close enough to thread the line of opinion.
Or are you specifically referring to that chyron? Then yeah, "is a criminal" seems very opinion-y.
False speech is constitutionally protected, particularly against a public figure.
Case would have real actual malice and substantial truth problems.
If you could survive those you'd be pretty set, but I wouldn't bet on it.
(nevermind that he's dead anyway)
Calling him "a convicted criminal" would be a false statement of fact.
Especially since pretty much every judge nationwide now thinks that the USG attorneys are lying to them.
Rupert Murdoch has said tRump is an idiot however he still says business first.
https://x.com/walkthepier/status/1913584029821022467
FOX news never tells the truth about anything.
They are set up to be the “State Propaganda” machine
NEVER BELIEVE ANYTHING SAID ON FOX
Lawfare's Anna Bower alerted Roberts himself.
"Hey, John Roberts?" Bower wrote. "The White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security is saying that you have 'no understanding of law and its proper function and role.'"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hey-john-roberts-chief-justice-alerted-as-white-house-liaison-insults-his-intelligence/ar-AA1DeO1t?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Yes, I know his record was later expunged by the courts, but it still happened, and no one should forget it.
One presumes that, had their been the slightest connection to a gang (apart from Proud boys or Oathkeepers) or any wrong doing at all, Pam Bondi would have found it by now and Trump wouldn't have had to resort to crudely photoshopped images of his tattoos.
Perhaps an attorney(s) are preparing the case.
Same playbook, different target
But that didn't work against Dominion, & it might not work here.
WE the PEOPLE 🇺🇸 appear to have traveled through the "wormhole" 🐛 🕳️ left in JFK
Jr.'s 🧠 Brain!!!!
Just ⚖️ sayin' 👈🏼
Abrego Garcia might need to find something like that.
I don’t think the Trump regime is planning on ever relinquishing power — regardless of circumstance
They’ll never leave willingly
They've been trashing people a long time, they know how to stay just barely legal
1. False statement of fact
2. About the plaintiff
3. Communicated to a third party by the defendant
4. Resulting in damages
5. With knowledge of falsity or serious doubts as to its truth at the time of publication.
Hope someone is saving the work of @acyn.bsky.social, @atrupar.com and @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social for Abrego Garcia and his lawyers.