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You obviously don't know the legal definitions of libel and slander.
Clue - if Wolff accurately reports what people told him, he has not committed libel or slander.
Keep in mind that Wolff's stated purpose was/is not to act as a trial judge/jury to arrive at the whole truth of a particular incident. His purpose was/is to show what the WH staff was/is like and how they function. And he did that. It's a pretty ugly picture. Instead of shooting the messenger, maybe Trump supporters should pressure Trump to clean up his staff? Just a thought.
So if I make up a lie about someone, and some author quotes me, that is OK?
Agree about the staff at the WH. Never trusted Priebus, for one, and Jared and Ivanka shouldn't be there IMO.
But aren't there a lot of staffers there still left over from the Obama era?
So if I make up a lie about someone, and some author quotes me, that is OK?
Agree about the staff at the WH. Never trusted Priebus, for one, and Jared and Ivanka shouldn't be there IMO.
But aren't there a lot of staffers there still left over from the Obama era?
Public figures don't have the same protections as private ones....especially politicians.
So yeah, you can lie and say Politician X is involved in human trafficking out of a pizza parlor and get away with it.
It goes with the territory of being a politician and is that way so as to make it pretty much impossible to silence critics.
So really anymore the game has changed such that the most effective counter to these things is to bury the story under other news.
So if I make up a lie about someone, and some author quotes me, that is OK?
then you are the one committing libel/slander, not the author ( unless it can be proven that the author knew the information was false and published out of intentional malice )
Public figures don't have the same protections as private ones....especially politicians.
So yeah, you can lie and say Politician X is involved in human trafficking out of a pizza parlor and get away with it.
It goes with the territory of being a politician and is that way so as to make it pretty much impossible to silence critics.
So really anymore the game has changed such that the most effective counter to these things is to bury the story under other news.
This! 1000x over. And being that this is constantly coming up by this Administration makes it clear that they are in positions they know nothing about. They really take criticism true or not way too personal. It comes with the job why can't they grasp this.
"Wolff says in the introduction that many of the accounts "are in conflict with one another" and may be "badly untrue," according to thehill.com. He goes on to say he "settled on a version of events" he thought were true."
Means he thinks some of the people he interviewed are given to exaggeration to the point of untruth. Which is why he referred to it as in “Trumpian fashion.”
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Lying is not illegal, and lying about someone doesn't necessarily fall under "libel and slander".
If it did, we'd all be subjected to lawsuits left and right.
If the writer believed that what he wrote was true, and it turns out it's not true, it would be near impossible to prove defamation. It would need to be proven, beyond reasonable doubt, that the author not only knew it wasn't true, but knew it wasn't true purely with the intent to destroy who he was writing about.
Some of you trump supporters are really reaching here.
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