Courts Give Trump A BIG Win Over Fake News Purveyors In Defamation Case
If they'd had the integrity to return that Pulitzer, we wouldn't even be talking about this
Remember how Trump-hating media outlets brought home big awards for the now-discredited Russia-Russia-Russia story? It’s coming back to bite people in the backside… good and hard.
Fake news media purveyors are given a veneer of legitimacy when their bogus stories are given ‘independent’ journalism awards.
If they had the integrity their industry suggests, they would be very interested in making sure that only the best and truest stories were given the industry’s top honors. But that’s not what happened with Washington ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ Post and New York ‘All the news that’s fit to print’ Times when they shared a 2019 award for Russiagate stories.
The stories for which they received those awards — including claims of Trump somehow colluding with Putin to rig the 2016 election — were thoroughly debunked.
And now Trump’s getting his turn to fight back… in a court of law. He took up his fight against the Pulitzer Board in 2022, while still a private citizen. And he just scored a significant victory in pushing the case forward.
The president also claimed he was defamed in a statement from the board, which came after Trump asked them to rescind the 2018 award. Trump filed the initial lawsuit in 2022.
The three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of Appeals ruled that Trump has met his burden of proof and established jurisdiction to proceed with the case.
“The President has met his burden of establishing jurisdiction to proceed with his asserted claims that the non-resident defendants acted with actual malice or reckless disregard for the truth by knowingly conspiring with the Florida resident defendant to defame the President,” the panel wrote. “Therefore, the trial court correctly denied the non-resident defendants’ motion to dismiss the President’s claims over the asserted publication of defamatory ‘FAKE NEWS.’ — JustTheNews
They tried to take him down. And now, he’s all the stronger for it… while those who conspired against him are now desperately playing defense.
If he keeps racking up these wins and compensations from people and corporations that have tried to destroy him, his Presidential library could be built without any need of asking for private donations!