Trump: 'Our current libel laws are a sham'

[GMDino]

Methinks the POTUS is getting itchy to file some new lawsuits....

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/10/trump-our-current-libel-laws-are-sham.html

Quote:President Trump said Wednesday he wants to toughen the country’s libel laws, a week after accusing the author of an unflattering book about his presidency of publishing defamatory information about him and his family. 


“Our current libel laws are a sham and a disgrace and do not represent American values or American fairness,” the president told reporters at the White House, as he met with his Cabinet for the first time in 2018.
Trump said those who have been libeled should have “meaningful recourse.” 

“So we're going to take a strong look at that,” Trump said. “We want fairness. You can't say things that are false, knowingly false, and be able to smile as money pours into your bank account.”

TRUMP DEMANDS PUBLISHER STOP RELEASE OF BOOK THAT CAUSED FALLOUT

Last week, Trump and his legal team mobilized against Michael Wolff’s new book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”

In a letter to Wolff and the book’s publisher, Trump’s lawyers demanded the halting of the book's publication and "a full and complete retraction and apology."

“Mr. Trump hereby demands that you immediately cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination of the book,” the attorney, Charles J. Harder, wrote in a letter obtained by Fox News.

Trump’s attorney didn't cite specific passages, but he argued the book includes “false/baseless statements” that could be “defamation by libel.”

“In the near future, you should expect to hear from this office in greater detail on all of the foregoing issues,” he wrote.

The publisher rejected Trump’s demands, and instead sped up the release of the book.

The book also caused a dramatic falling out between Trump and his former adviser Stephen Bannon, who was quoted speaking ill of members of the president’s family.

Fox left out the quote from their story (it is in the video) that may be the single most ironic thing Trump has said....today.

Quote:“You can’t say things that are false, knowingly false and be able to smile as money pours into your bank account.”

While he clearly doesn't mean any lie, just libel...for the guy who ran Trump University that's takes immense guts to even utter that line.

[*michaelsean*]

"You can't say things that are false, knowingly false, and be able to smile as money pours into your bank account.”

I believe that's covered in libel laws. You just have to prove it.

[GMDino]

(01-10-2018, 04:55 PM)michaelsean Wrote: "You can't say things that are false, knowingly false, and be able to smile as money pours into your bank account.”

I believe that's covered in libel laws.  You just have to prove it.

No.  The POTUS said they are a SHAM! 

And he pointed at someone when he said "we're going to take a long, hard look at it".

He is serious!!

[CKwi88]

(01-10-2018, 04:55 PM)michaelsean Wrote: "You can't say things that are false, knowingly false, and be able to smile as money pours into your bank account.”

Unless you want to be president I guess.

Very ironic quote coming from Trump.

[Belsnickel]

Yeah, I think it would take some constitutional reconfiguring. The actual malice has stood for over 50 years at this point, and it's not like it hasn't been tested since then. I don't know if statutory law could do anything, and a federal law may be seen as overreach depending on the language.

[fredtoast]

This from the guy who swore he had proof that Obama was born in Kenya.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Aren't libel laws all state laws?

Trump really REALLY needs someone in his ear at all times telling him how to say things.


He needs someone to tell him it's after 12pm as soon as it becomes 12pm so he don't tell someone else "Good Morning" at 12:00:01pm and cause headlines that say "TRUMP DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS!"