Mike Davis @mrddmia Dear @TuckerCarlson: @AOC just defamed you.
@MSNBC didn’t correct her on air. So under the new Dominion v. @FoxNews precedent, you should sue MSNBC for defamation.https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1650218203296198656?s=46&t=hyhORYMutu7aLGgTUYbD4Q
No. POTUS FIRST. (Don't know who MD is, but he's quoted a lot).
… Defamation is a tricky area of law as the lines between stating an opinion versus a fact can be vague, and defamation tests the limits of the first amendment freedoms of speech and press.
Elements - To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and 4) damages, or some harm caused to the reputation of the person or entity who is the subject of the statement.
In The New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) where a police chief brought a defamation claim regarding a newspaper, the Supreme Court held that for a public official to succeed on a defamation claim, the public official plaintiff must show that the false, defaming statements were said with "actual malice.” … However, if the statement is made with actual malice, then the speaker will no longer be entitled to the qualified privilege. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation Well
“I hate him passionately,” Carlson texted an unknown staffer. “I blew up at [ex-Trump official] Peter Navarro today in frustration. I actually like Peter. But I can’t handle much more of this.” He then added: “We’re all pretending we've got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it's been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn't really an upside to Trump.” https://archive.is/8svfn https://www.thedailybeast.com/more-batsht-details-released-in-fox-news-dominion-suit-bombshell?ref=scroll
Well POTUS should also sue faux and “just the news” (run by faux/hannity Lapdog Solomon) as well, should he not? Where were POTUS’ statements? Would faux air them?
JustTheNews.com: Updated: January 9, 2021 Tucker Carlson blasts Trump, says he 'recklessly encouraged' supporters before riot at Capitol"That is in fact what happened," Carlson said."What happened yesterday, they're telling us, wasn't simply that a political protest got out of hand after the president recklessly encouraged it, that is in fact what happened," Carlson said, …”We've gone from being this big continental country with an enormous span of concerns and interests to a sweaty chat room of 300 million people, all of whom are focused on a single man, Donald Trump,”… https://archive.ph/l5mOa
June 26, 2020 - NOWHERE were POTUS’ repeated statements, The Insurrection Act, Communist Tactics, Soros, who and what runs and funds BLM, ETC. mentioned:
On Thursday's broadcast of his FOX News show, Carlson challenged viewers to name a single leader in world history that stayed in power after failing to "quell a rebellion."
President Trump may lose this election. Unless fundamental facts change soon, it will be tough for him to be reelected…. At some point in the future, historians will marvel at the fact the president lost ground during a pandemic and then during mass riots…You could declare out loud that all lives matter, because all lives do matter. God made us all. If you can’t say that, what’s the point of living here? Trump never quite articulated any of this… And yet when widespread disorder arrived, Trump did not act decisively. He said little. He did less. Voters felt undefended. Some turned against him…. archive.is/8mDoy