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Melania Trump wins round in libel suit over blogger's 'escort' claims
Posted on 1/27/17 at 1:28 pm
Posted on 1/27/17 at 1:28 pm
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First lady Melania Trump prevailed Friday in the first round of a $150 million libel suit she filed against a Maryland blogger over a report he published last summer about claims that Trump worked as a "high-end escort."
Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Sharon Burrell rejected arguments from lawyers for blogger Webster Tarpley to dismiss Trump's suit for failing to meet the "actual malice" standard for public figures. The judge also turned down Tarpley's effort to dismiss the suit under a Maryland law aimed at quickly shutting down bad-faith lawsuits intended to intimidate people speaking out on issues of public concern.
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A lawyer for Tarpley, Danielle Giroux, insisted that Tarpley wasn’t vouching for the truth of the allegations he aired, but simply publicizing the fact that there were rumors that had a potential to impact the presidential campaign.
“He did not say that Melania Trump was a high-class escort. What he said was there are rumors about that,” the attorney said. "He's writing about the rumors and that, itself, is newsworthy."
However, Trump attorney Charles Harder said it was evident from Tarpley’s post that he was endorsing the accuracy of the claims, particularly by referring to them as “widely known.”
"That's not how the law works. You can't print a rumor if it's not true and it damages or harms someone's reputation," the attorney said. "That is textbook defamation.
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Burrell said Tarpley's bid to end the case under Maryland's Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation law (sometimes called a SLAPP law) failed because there was no indication the suit was brought in bad faith. The judge also seemed skeptical that such salacious claims were deserving of the highest level of legal protection given that Melania Trump was the wife of a candidate and not a candidate herself.
"The interests affected are arguably not that important because the plaintiff wasn't the one running for office," Burrell said.
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Posted on 1/27/17 at 1:32 pm to Bourre
I'd pay to frick FLOTUS
Posted on 1/27/17 at 1:32 pm to Bourre
There is irony in this.
In the end, after she wins, it will be Tarpley that pays a very high sum to be fricked by Melania.
In the end, after she wins, it will be Tarpley that pays a very high sum to be fricked by Melania.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 1:33 pm to biglego
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I'd pay to frick FLOTUS
This post was edited on 1/27/17 at 1:35 pm
Posted on 1/27/17 at 1:34 pm to Bourre
quote:It's pretty defamatory, but wouldn't low-end escort, or unpaid escort (gets around) be even more defamatory?
There could be no more defamatory statement than to call a woman a prostitute.
After the Freakonomics story about a high-end escort, it seems like a quality career.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 1:46 pm to Bourre
Wait, more winning?
It . . . . Is . . . . Glorious!!
It . . . . Is . . . . Glorious!!
Posted on 1/27/17 at 1:49 pm to biglego
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I'd pay to frick FLOTUS
Im just happy that when we talk about the FLOTUS we are referring to Melania in stead of MOOchlle.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 1:57 pm to Bourre
quote:Hello Buzzfeed
A lawyer for Tarpley, Danielle Giroux, insisted that Tarpley wasn’t vouching for the truth of the allegations he aired, but simply publicizing the fact that there were rumors that had a potential to impact the presidential campaign.
“He did not say that Melania Trump was a high-class escort. What he said was there are rumors about that,” the attorney said. "He's writing about the rumors and that, itself, is newsworthy."
Posted on 1/27/17 at 2:11 pm to NC_Tigah
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lawyer for Tarpley, Danielle Giroux, insisted that Tarpley wasn’t vouching for the truth of the allegations
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libel - a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation
Yeah, I think they already realize they've lost
This might just be a test case, before going nuclear on Buzzfeed
Posted on 1/27/17 at 2:13 pm to RobbBobb
Still big time obstacles in the BuzzFeed scenario, if it is even pursued.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 2:16 pm to CoachChappy
It feels a little patriotic when I fap to the presidents womenfolk
Posted on 1/27/17 at 2:18 pm to Bourre
Milo is constantly having to threaten legal action against magazines and websites calling him a white nationalist. The only way to get the press to stop spreading lies is to hit them in the bank account.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 2:42 pm to Pettifogger
quote:Indeed.
Still big time obstacles in the BuzzFeed scenario, if it is even pursued.
Trump won't go after that.
But the similarities are striking.
Make no mistake, if/when Melania wins, DJT will make the extrapolation. His extrapolation will further damage both Buzzfeed and CNN.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 3:33 pm to NC_Tigah
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Make no mistake, if/when Melania wins, DJT will make the extrapolation. His extrapolation will further damage both Buzzfeed and CNN.
Maybe so, I'm just talking about the viability of a defamation case. Pulling rumors out of thin air and hiding behind them being rumors is significantly different than releasing a document prepared by a private intelligence firm with the caveat that you can't verify any of the information in it. Especially because I'm sure they'll be able to point to a number of articles/tweets (including CNN's but others too) where it is being referenced and alluded to.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 3:37 pm to NC_Tigah
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Hello Buzzfeed
Yep. It's been textbook law for decades that you cannot print a rumor and then hide behind a disclaimer of hey were aren't sure this is true but just thought you'd be interested type defense.
If that were the law then every shitty rumor about every public figure would get reported with such a disclaimer for protection.
I said when Buzzfeed published the dossier they were fricked. I stand by that.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 3:44 pm to buckeye_vol
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the Freakonomics story about a high-end escort, it seems like a quality career.
If Melania was one (doubt she was) it paid off for her bigly.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 3:46 pm to Bourre
She should win, but no "blogger" in the universe is going to have anywhere near $150 million dollars.
Especially this conspiracy nutball. Here's the blurb for his book, the "Unauthorized Biography of Barak Obama":
I think we met the guy who doesn't want either side to like him.
Especially this conspiracy nutball. Here's the blurb for his book, the "Unauthorized Biography of Barak Obama":
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Written by the author of the legendary 1992 expose of Bush the elder, this book works from a New Deal point of view. Obama is exposed as a foundation operative and agent of Wall Street finance capital, controlled by Zbigniew Brzezinski, George Soros, and Goldman Sachs. Obama's mother was an official of the Ford Foundation, the World Bank, and US AID. By all indications, Obama was identified for future political use by Brzezinski at Columbia in 1981-1983, during Obama's secret lost years. Obama has worked for the Gamaliel Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Woods Fund, and the Annenberg Foundation as a community organizer - a poverty pimp, a cynical opportunist who uses suffering people as a political commodity. The foundation strategy is divide and conquer, pitting blacks against whites against Hispanics against Asians, to prevent any challenge to Wall Street. Racist provocateurs like Wright and Pfleger, along with Weatherman terrorist bombers Ayers and Dohrn,
I think we met the guy who doesn't want either side to like him.
Posted on 1/27/17 at 4:06 pm to Bourre
I just don't understand how anyone could believe this tramp would pimp out her body?
MAGA
This post was edited on 1/27/17 at 4:10 pm
Posted on 1/27/17 at 4:10 pm to TX Tiger
So if you are a model, it means you are a high priced escort too?
Posted on 1/27/17 at 4:10 pm to TidenUP
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a model
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