President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign filed another libel suit against a media organization, this time going after the Washington Post over two pieces published last June by opinion blogger Greg Sargent and opinion writer Paul Waldman.
“The articles at issue herein also are part of the The Post’s systematic pattern of bias against the Campaign, designed to maliciously interfere with and damage its reputation and ultimately cause the organization to fail,” the Trump campaign said in its lawsuit (read it here).
Sargent’s article, published on June 13, was headlined “Trump just invited another Russian attack. Mitch McConnell is making one more likely,” and said that in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, he concluded “that Trump and/or his campaign eagerly encouraged, tried to conspire with, and happily profited off of those efforts. Yet Mueller did not find sufficient evidence of a criminal conspiracy.
“The articles at issue herein also are part of the The Post’s systematic pattern of bias against the Campaign, designed to maliciously interfere with and damage its reputation and ultimately cause the organization to fail,” the Trump campaign said in its lawsuit (read it here).
Sargent’s article, published on June 13, was headlined “Trump just invited another Russian attack. Mitch McConnell is making one more likely,” and said that in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, he concluded “that Trump and/or his campaign eagerly encouraged, tried to conspire with, and happily profited off of those efforts. Yet Mueller did not find sufficient evidence of a criminal conspiracy.
- 3/3/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated with Trump comment: President Donald Trump defended his campaign’s libel suit against The New York Times, telling reporters, “They did a bad thing. And there will be more coming.”
Trump also pushed back on the Times‘ defense — that the article in question was opinion, and that the lawsuit was an effort to “punish an opinion writer for having an opinion they find unacceptable. ”
“If you read it, you will see that it is much more than opinion,” Trump said at a press conference to talk about the administration’s response to the coronavirus. “It is beyond an opinion.”
The article, headlined “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo,” was written by Max Frankel, the former executive editor of the Times, ran on March 27, 2019.
Previously: The New York Times says that a libel suit filed by the Trump campaign over a 2019 opinion piece is an effort to use the courts...
Trump also pushed back on the Times‘ defense — that the article in question was opinion, and that the lawsuit was an effort to “punish an opinion writer for having an opinion they find unacceptable. ”
“If you read it, you will see that it is much more than opinion,” Trump said at a press conference to talk about the administration’s response to the coronavirus. “It is beyond an opinion.”
The article, headlined “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo,” was written by Max Frankel, the former executive editor of the Times, ran on March 27, 2019.
Previously: The New York Times says that a libel suit filed by the Trump campaign over a 2019 opinion piece is an effort to use the courts...
- 2/27/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Helen Thomas takes notes during an informal press briefing with President Gerald Ford, 1976. (Yes, that’s chief of staff Dick Cheney looking on at the far left.) Photo from the Library of Congress. I am old enough to have been present in the White House Briefing Room not quite 15 years ago, when Helen Thomas celebrated her 75th birthday. She was, even then, the oldest workhorse on the beat—25 years older than I am now. It was a proud moment for the free press, for the pioneering role that Helen played for women in journalism, and for that beleaguered tribe whose principal duty it was (and is) to chronicle the presidency from one of the worst possible perches on which to view it: the White House itself. When I first came to Washington, on behalf of The New York Times, at the end of 1993, a very wise man named Max Frankel (who happened,...
- 6/8/2010
- Vanity Fair
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