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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump lawyer seeks to block insider book on White House
so much for that 1st Amendment thingy...
The legal notice addressed to author Michael Wolff and the president of the books publisher said Trumps 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
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)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)ollie10
(2,091 posts)IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)spanone
(135,633 posts)for years
highplainsdem
(48,727 posts)really aimed at stopping or at least delaying publication of the book.
highplainsdem
(48,727 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,083 posts)(Some NSFW language.....which is actually pretty much the point of the clip.)
tanyev
(42,358 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,440 posts)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)But, knowing Trumpollini Cheapskateski, I bet they are.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)The way TrumpCo is raking in money from his "job" says that our tax dollars are funding this.
Hugin
(32,778 posts)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)IMNSHO
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)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.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,119 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,440 posts)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.
Hugin
(32,778 posts)You cut me off at the pass, lindy!
Nice work!
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)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.