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spanone

(135,633 posts)
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:04 AM Jan 2018

Trump lawyer seeks to block insider book on White House

so much for that 1st Amendment thingy...

A lawyer representing President Trump sought Thursday to stop the publication of a new behind-the-scenes book about the White House that has already led Trump to angrily decry his former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon.

The legal notice — addressed to author Michael Wolff and the president of the book’s publisher — said Trump’s lawyers were pursuing possible charges including libel in connection with the forthcoming book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”

The letter by Beverly Hills-based attorney Charles J. Harder demanded the publisher, Henry Holt and Co., “immediately cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination of the book” or excerpts and summaries of its contents. The lawyers also seek a full copy of the book as part of their investigation.

The latest twist in the showdown came after lawyers accused Bannon of breaching a confidentiality agreement and Trump denounced his former aide as a self-aggrandizing political charlatan who has “lost his mind.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-slams-bannon-when-he-was-fired-he-not-only-lost-his-job-he-lost-his-mind/2018/01/03/21fb158a-f0aa-11e7-b3bf-ab90a706e175_story.html?utm_term=.4c0c29d07cd0
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Trump lawyer seeks to block insider book on White House (Original Post) spanone Jan 2018 OP
This will just make the book sell more copies YessirAtsaFact Jan 2018 #1
👍🏼😎 spanone Jan 2018 #3
Prior Restraint, huh? ollie10 Jan 2018 #2
Sad! IluvPitties Jan 2018 #4
this is rich coming from don trump who slandered President Obama all over the networks and cable spanone Jan 2018 #6
Yeah, that's what I thought when Axios reported earlier that Trump might sue Wolff. That was highplainsdem Jan 2018 #5
Btw, the publisher's legal department would have already considered this possibility. highplainsdem Jan 2018 #7
For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint! Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2018 #8
Time to gear up for a second print run! tanyev Jan 2018 #9
Just happened 45 minutes ago on wapo! NIIIIICE! lindysalsagal Jan 2018 #10
They'd better not be using any tax dollars in this vanity lawsuit. Hugin Jan 2018 #11
Money is fungible... Wounded Bear Jan 2018 #13
I'd be curious if using federal funds to squash would indeed be a violation of the 1st Amendment. Hugin Jan 2018 #16
Just using the power of the office for this should be a 1A violation... Wounded Bear Jan 2018 #17
This actually worries me a little bit... Wounded Bear Jan 2018 #12
Memo to me: Add popcorn to the shopping list. nt Buns_of_Fire Jan 2018 #14
"before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head." lindysalsagal Jan 2018 #15
Oy! See my post #16. Hugin Jan 2018 #19
Well, I was on the fence leftynyc Jan 2018 #18

YessirAtsaFact

(2,064 posts)
1. This will just make the book sell more copies
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:11 AM
Jan 2018

Good luck preventing a book about a public figure from being published.

However, this lawsuit might force the publishers to make the interview tapes public.

That would be a hoot.

spanone

(135,633 posts)
6. this is rich coming from don trump who slandered President Obama all over the networks and cable
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:13 AM
Jan 2018

for years

highplainsdem

(48,727 posts)
5. Yeah, that's what I thought when Axios reported earlier that Trump might sue Wolff. That was
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:12 AM
Jan 2018

really aimed at stopping or at least delaying publication of the book.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,083 posts)
8. For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint!
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:15 AM
Jan 2018


(Some NSFW language.....which is actually pretty much the point of the clip.)

lindysalsagal

(20,440 posts)
10. Just happened 45 minutes ago on wapo! NIIIIICE!
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:18 AM
Jan 2018

This will be the breaking of the dam: This opens the door to more and more of them: And with the total lack of professionalism, there has to be an unlimted supply of this stuff.

It's all out in the open, and with the tweets and off-the-cuff potus remarks, it's impossible to stop or deny. No judge is going to take this seriously.

Hugin

(32,778 posts)
11. They'd better not be using any tax dollars in this vanity lawsuit.
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:21 AM
Jan 2018

But, knowing Trumpollini Cheapskateski, I bet they are.

Wounded Bear

(58,440 posts)
13. Money is fungible...
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:23 AM
Jan 2018

The way TrumpCo is raking in money from his "job" says that our tax dollars are funding this.

Hugin

(32,778 posts)
16. I'd be curious if using federal funds to squash would indeed be a violation of the 1st Amendment.
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:30 AM
Jan 2018

Not that the current misappropriation administration would even give the Constitution a second thought.

I guess it'd be up to the SCOTUS to sort it out... Wait!

5 to 4 "No, it's NOT! and you eat worms.", there I beat them to it. :cripes:

Wounded Bear

(58,440 posts)
12. This actually worries me a little bit...
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:22 AM
Jan 2018

They took the Citizen's United case and turned into a waterfall of illicit funding for campaigns. What evil crap could they warp this case into? CU should actually be a defense against this suit, but I don't trust this shit any more.

lindysalsagal

(20,440 posts)
15. "before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head."
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:27 AM
Jan 2018
In another book scene, Sam Nunberg, a former campaign aide who was ultimately fired, describes trying to explain the Constitution to the president. “I got as far as the Fourth Amendment,” the book quotes Nunberg as saying, “before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.”
 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
18. Well, I was on the fence
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:32 AM
Jan 2018

about buying this book. If donnie is that scared and whiny about it, it must be delicious. Off to Kindle sales to pre-buy it.

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