Opinion: New York Times shreds Trump campaign lawsuit over Russia op-ed
: “Great job on @donlemon tonight @kayleighmcenany @cherijacobus begged us for a job. We said no and she went hostile. A real dummy! @CNN.”for defamation, insisting that Trump and Lewandowski had uttered false claims that damaged her professional prospects. She had never “begged” the Trump campaign for a job; au contraire, she showed, the Trump campaign approachedabout working with them. So how did Trump & Co.
The point here is strong: If the law is capacious enough to protect the rantings of Trump and Lewandowski on cable news and Twitter, it surely has room for a carefully phrased op-ed by Frankel. The court will have an easy time with this one — so easy that the Times argues that it should be awarded legal fees in the case:
Meritless, unethical, frivolous, and vexatious — precisely the right description of a lawsuit brought for political purposes by a political campaign that is aiming to silence those who would dare to use their First Amendment rights to criticize a sitting President, that uses as a stalking-horse plaintiff a corporate entity that has no legal claim of its own to bring, that makes laughable assertions of damages, and that builds its case on a knowing fabrication about what the Mueller...
Correct. When Trump is speaking, the First Amendment is a glorious constitutional protection; when he’s being spoken about, the First Amendment is a negligible afterthought.
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