Trump Media files $3.78bn defamation lawsuit against Washington Post over Truth Social reporting

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Source: MSN

The company behind Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform has filed a $3.78bn defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post.

The lawsuit, filed by Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (TMTG) in Florida’s Sarasota County, claims that a 13 May article that alleged the company may have committed securities fraud was false and defamatory, and posed an “existential threat”.

The article titled “Trust linked to porn-friendly bank could gain a stake in Trump’s Truth Social” alleged that the company had concealed key details about a proposed merger from the Securities and Exchange Commission and shareholders, citing internal documents provided by a whistleblower......

The case is the latest in a series of defamation suits brought by Mr Trump, his political campaign organisations and companies in recent years.

In March 2020, the Trump Campaign filed a defamation suit against The Post over two articles about Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion and his campaign strategy.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-media-files-3-78bn-defamation-lawsuit-against-washington-post-over-truth-social-reporting/ar-AA1bwIs9?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=924a515b85f94411c8d0b843ae9f007c&ei=8

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1. Here is a link to the petition

Devon Nunes' idiot attorney is the attorney who filed this lawsuit. The Washington Post printed some facts that TFG does not like. This lawsuit is up there with the Clinton RICO claim, the lawsuit to rescind Pulitzer awards and the lawsuit against Michael Cohen. TFG is a vexatious litigant and should be banned from the courts.

Link to tweet

Here is a link to the pleading
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-05/Complaint%20-%205.20.23_0.pdf

[MayReasonRule]

12. Thanks For That!!

Meanwhile Alvin Bragg spelled out in writing a whole list of criminal statutes that elevate the misdemeanor falsification charges including:

“... violations of New York Election Law § 17-152; New York Tax Law §§ 1801(a)(3) and 1802; New York Penal Law §§ 175.05 and 175.10; or violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act, 52 U.S.C.§ 30101 et. seq."

And

Moreover, the law does not require Trump to actually have committed the second crime — only that he intended to.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Hoping to get back to the Billionaire Class

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3. WAPO backed by Bezos money... I know where I'm putting my bet...

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Not to mention they have competent lawyers that they actually pay.

[marble falls]

15. Paying competent lawyers helps, but truth and facts are an effective defense. I wonder how many ...

... courts will have to toss this one to the street, before the Orange Shitgibbon moves on to the next windmill?

Seriously, isn't he batting somewhere in the 80 losses to one win level?

[hlthe2b]

17. Yes, certainly, but likewise with their foundation they can extract some "frivolous lawsuit pain"

on Trump after-the-fact.

[ificandream]

4. Another day, another Trump lawsuit.

Some people have way too much money.

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5. Interesting quote from the lawsuit ... Trump's own modus operandi for social media

"23. By publishing the false and defamatory Statements on the Internet and by tweeting the false Statements to its 20,000,000+ followers, WaPo knew or should have known that its false and defamatory Statements would be republished over and over and over by third-parties to TMTG’s detriment and injury. Republication was the natural and probable consequence of WaPo’s actions and was actually and/or presumptively authorized by WaPo as part of its regular way of doing business. In addition to the original publications, WaPo is liable for the republications of the false and defamatory Statements by its agents and by third-parties.

I mean this is the shit Trump does every fucking day. And now he's whining like a baby and accusing someone else of doing it to him? Hilarious.

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6. TFG's counsels in this case are a workers compensation attorney and Steve Biss

Biss is the idiot attorney who keeps filing and losing lawsuits for Deven Nunes

Link to tweet

[MayReasonRule]

13. That's Pure Gold!!!

[Blue Owl]

7. Oh FFS

The very idea of Dump suing another person or entity for defamation is downright laughable -- he is the master of defamation

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8. shithole does it every day....................

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9. Trump must be number one in the Dingus Record Book for most lawsuits.

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10. time to start disbarring lawyers

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11. It is time to classify TFG as a vexatious litigant

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14. "prejudgement interest" n/t

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16. This will be kicked out of court ASAP and Trump and company will have to pay the Washington Post's

.... legal fees and court costs. Suing the Washington Post for reporting a story. That will work out
well for Trump and Company.

So Truth Social Brought in 22 billion $s but is now worth only 1.2 billion. Can you say money laundering?
And I'm willing to bet the "porn friendly bank" is most likely Putin's own Deutsche Bank.


From the link:
"The business, which is 85 per cent-owned by Mr Trump, was hyped with a potential value of $22bn after investors piled money into Truth Social’s special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).

But according to Forbes, the business was worth around $1.2bn in April this year.

Truth Social is reportedly under investigation by the Justice Department for alleged money laundering, and is subject to probes by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Financial Regulatory Agency."

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18. I can't believe it's worth 1.2bn

Should be worth 50 cents. Stupid people there. Since the orange vomit lost to E. Jean, he figures he can do it too. Doofus.

[Danascot]

19. E. Jean needs to raise her sights

Trump obviously thinks defamation should be worth billions, so she should raise her claim accordingly.

[Initech]

20. For a party that claims to hate frivolous lawsuits, they sure do file a lot of frivolous lawsuits.

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21. Devin Nunes Steers Trump Media Company Into Dumpster Fire Defamation Suits

There is a separate lawsuit filed by Deven Nunes individually against the Guardian that was also filed by Steve Bliss

Link to tweet

https://abovethelaw.com/2023/05/devin-nunes-steers-trump-media-company-into-dumpster-fire-defamation-suits/

In April, Devin Nunes’s wildly self-destructive defamation suit against journalist Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines came to an ignominious end with a federal judge ruling that his family did indeed employ undocumented laborers on its dairy farm. The former congressman’s family spent a couple weeks chasing Lizza around rural Iowa to stop him nosing around their business, only to get dragged into the case and forced to throw open their books in discovery. And now Nunes looks to be working that same magic for his new employer, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), with a pair of defamation suits against The Guardian and the Washington Post filed in state court in Sarasota County, Florida.

TMTG is in the midst of trying to take itself public via a SPAC known as Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC). But the deal appears to be seriously in jeopardy, with the SEC, FINRA, and the Justice Department investigating DWAC. There are also reports that DWAC’s recently ousted CEO Patrick Orlando, who met with Trump before DWAC’s founding, made it clear from the jump that taking TMTG public was the entire reason for founding the SPAC, a gross violation of SEC rules.

In March, The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell reported that TMTG is under investigation for possible money laundering in relation to an $8 million loan from a company whose main business appears to be processing payments for webcam pornography in the former Soviet Union. In a truly bizarre complaint, Nunes sued The Guardian in his personal capacity, claiming that “Defendants published and republished egregious statements online and via social media (Twitter) that falsely accused or implied that Nunes engaged in or aided and abetted money laundering.”

Nunes is only mentioned in the article twice: once to say that he is the CEO of TMTG, and once noting his denial that he or anyone else at the company had reservations about the source of the loan. Nevertheless, the complaint insists “Defendants’ false criminal charges exposed Nunes to hatred, ridicule, contempt, distrust, and disgrace, and injured his business, reputation and occupation.”

Here is a link to the lawsuit filed by Nunes individually against the Guardian
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23828415/nun