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highplainsdem

(48,721 posts)
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 09:39 AM Jan 2018

1 big thing: Trump may sue Michael Wolff

Source: Axios

Axios has learned that, at Trump's direction, his lawyers may go after Wolff as soon as today.

Bannon wouldn't comment on the record, but "a source with knowledge of this matter" texted me that "more than a dozen wh staffers or colleagues of potus talked with [wolff] ... because the wh was cooperating with the book."

Reached for comment about the lawyer's letter to Bannon, Wolff told me: "I rest my case."

-snip-

Read more: https://www.axios.com/axios-am-2522224225.html

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1 big thing: Trump may sue Michael Wolff (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 2018 OP
Of course he will. Lil Missy Jan 2018 #1
They'd better gear up for a second print run. tanyev Jan 2018 #2
Go for it--prove the book is false in court The Blue Flower Jan 2018 #3
Imagine all of the WH staffers having to testify under oath about the legitimacy democratisphere Jan 2018 #4
So right.... SayItLoud Jan 2018 #12
Lots of pants shitting.... machoneman Jan 2018 #14
But sueing Michael Wolff won't do Trump any good. Trump CANNOT be sue by ANYONE!! onecent Jan 2018 #5
I'd expect nothing less. TheCowsCameHome Jan 2018 #6
Trump Started As A Birther SeaDoo77 Jan 2018 #7
Damn, where's Roy Cohn when you need him? underpants Jan 2018 #8
Defending the Devil in Hell? n/t PoliticAverse Jan 2018 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author DonViejo Jan 2018 #9
The F'n MORON will have to be deposed SayItLoud Jan 2018 #11
SSSSSuuuuure he will. Adrahil Jan 2018 #13
From another DU post: billh58 Jan 2018 #15
Lawsuit would open up discovery. mobeau69 Jan 2018 #16
Before or after he sues THE NEW YORK TIMES, the women who accused him of assault, the..... brooklynite Jan 2018 #17
Please do. Pretty please. With sugar on top. Yavin4 Jan 2018 #18
Nah, this is 100% a bluff. lark Jan 2018 #19
From Richard Painter last night on MSNBC RandomAccess Jan 2018 #20
Nothing would sell more books Cold War Spook Jan 2018 #21

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
4. Imagine all of the WH staffers having to testify under oath about the legitimacy
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 09:43 AM
Jan 2018

of the content of Michael Wolff's book. This horses ass law suit is going nowhere.

machoneman

(3,951 posts)
14. Lots of pants shitting....
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:09 AM
Jan 2018

by WH staffers if this challenge goes through. Bannon's lawyers will call all who were taped to testify under oath they DID say those salacious and true things!

Pass that popcorn!

onecent

(6,096 posts)
5. But sueing Michael Wolff won't do Trump any good. Trump CANNOT be sue by ANYONE!!
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 09:43 AM
Jan 2018

He's almost toast....
God I just ordered the book -- just now...

underpants

(182,271 posts)
8. Damn, where's Roy Cohn when you need him?
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 09:45 AM
Jan 2018

Trump's returning to his old game. Sue countersue sue to intimidate send his attack dog Cohn in etc.

Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

 

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
13. SSSSSuuuuure he will.
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 10:50 AM
Jan 2018

No he won't. Trump threatens to sue people all the time. But if he sues Wolff, Trump will have to be deposed. Under oath. No way he does that.

billh58

(6,635 posts)
15. From another DU post:
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:17 AM
Jan 2018
The author of a new book that's loaded with explosive anecdotes of a disorganized and chaotic White House is backed up by "dozens of hours" of audio recordings of senior staff, according to a report.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141952728


Hard to refute the electronic evidence...

lark

(23,003 posts)
19. Nah, this is 100% a bluff.
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 12:57 PM
Jan 2018

drumpf doesn't want to get deposed in front of unfriendly attorneys, his attorneys wouldn't let that bloodbath happen. He's always full of bluster, but there is no go in the current show, just totally empty threats. I hope he does sue, that he's really that demented. He will lose and could lose really big if the actual truth comes out. Hope Wolff and publisher hang tough and go ahead with publication and drumpf will be shown to be an ignorant clown or the same is shown in deposition that gets leaked to news and judge rules in favor of defendants and book comes out anyway. Only now there will be a lot more behind this and the total realization that drumpf can't be president, is mentally unfit.

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
20. From Richard Painter last night on MSNBC
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 01:24 PM
Jan 2018

and several others last night to 2 lawyers on The View this morning (Greta Van Susteren and Sunny Hostin), everyone of them treated this news (or threat) with utter disdain.

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