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Offline Right_in_Virginia

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Trump campaign sues TV station for airing ad claiming president called coronavirus a 'hoax'
« on: April 13, 2020, 03:55:12 pm »
Trump campaign sues TV station for airing ad claiming president called coronavirus a 'hoax'
Washington Times, Apr 13. 2020

The Trump campaign on Monday filed a lawsuit against a Wisconsin TV station, saying it aired a pro-Biden advertisement containing the intentionally false claim that the president referred to the coronavirus as a “hoax.”

The lawsuit against WJFW of Rhinelander, an NBC affiliate, follows a cease-and-desist letter from the campaign over the ad produced by Priorities USA, a super PAC supporting the candidacy of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden.

The lawsuit says the ad used digitally manipulated clips of Mr. Trump’s voice to fabricate him saying, “The coronavirus, this is their new hoax.”

“As is clear from his full remarks, President Trump was referring to the Democrats’ politicization of the coronavirus crisis and likening it to their reaction to the Mueller Russia hoax and the sham impeachment. He has never said that the virus itself was a hoax,” the campaign said.

Campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis said the defamation lawsuit “helps ensure that news outlets are accountable to viewers, who should be able to trust the accuracy and truth of content aired to the public.”


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/13/trump-campaign-sues-tv-station-airing-ad-claiming-/
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Re: Trump campaign sues TV station for airing ad claiming president called coronavirus a 'hoax'
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2020, 04:56:56 pm »
Stuff like this and the Covington High School cases could reshape how libel and slander law are applied in the US WRT the skews media. In this particular case, it is well and long known that Trump did not say that the coronavirus is a hoax. The First Amendment does not protect libel and slander.
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If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Re: Trump campaign sues TV station for airing ad claiming president called coronavirus a 'hoax'
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2020, 05:31:55 pm »
IMHO he is acting like a spoiled child
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Re: Trump campaign sues TV station for airing ad claiming president called coronavirus a 'hoax'
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2020, 05:35:47 pm »
Quote from: Gemmarose on April 13, 2020, 05:31:55 pm
IMHO he is acting like a spoiled child

It would be nice if the news media had enough integrity to police their own, but they do not. Why should Trump allow them to get away with patent, easily demonstrable lies?
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Re: Trump campaign sues TV station for airing ad claiming president called coronavirus a 'hoax'
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2020, 05:50:07 pm »
Quote from: Gemmarose on April 13, 2020, 05:31:55 pm
IMHO he is acting like a spoiled child

There should be no consequences for libel/slander?
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If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.
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