AGAIN?
Doanld Trump does NOT control the America media like his buddy Russian Putin does in his country….
Pulitzer picks who THEY want to give their award to…..
They don’t listen to Trump….
And threatening to go to court
(How many time’s ?)
Just makes him look stupid….
But yea…
It gets him headlines….
We regret to inform you that Donald Trump is back on his bullshit.
Not that he was ever off his bullshit, of course. But the former president is once again threatening to sue the Pulitzer Prize Board for refusing to rescind the 2018 prizes awardedto the New York Times and Washington Post for their coverage of the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russian electoral interference.
This isn’t exactly a new hobby for the nation’s most vexatious litigant. In November of 2021, his nutball lawyer Alina Habba sent the Board a “spoiliation” letter demanding that it claw back the honors bestowed on the media outlets.
“By failing to remove these statements, revoke the award, or even publicly comment on the illegitimate nature of the works, the Pulitzer Prize Board is actively advancing the false narrative contained therein and promoting defamatory statements against our client,” she huffed.
Then in June 2022, Trump sent a letter himself, pointing to the doomed Sussmann indictment and bizarrely the DOJ Inspector General’s report which found that the FBI investigation was appropriately predicated as evidence that the media outlets had simply been out to smear him in cahoots with the Clinton campaign.
“There is no dispute that the Pulitzer Board’s award to those media outlets was based on false and fabricated information that they published,” he blustered. “The continuing publication and recognition of the Prizes on the Board’s website is a distortion of fact and a personal defamation that will result in the filing of litigation if the Board cannot be persuaded to do the right thing on its own.”
And this week he’s back, posting on his Dear Diary page:
The Russia, Russia, Russia hoax has been totally debunked. The fake news media covered it incorrectly—reporting exactly the opposite of what actually happened.
Yet, the Pulitzer Board has not rescinded the prizes they awarded for reporting that was inaccurate, inept, and corrupt.
In order to restore the credibility of the Pulitzer Prizes, the Pulitzer Board should take away prizes from all who got it wrong….
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But since the Pulitzer Board never published the stories in the first place, it can’t have republished them in July simply by saying that it investigated and would not be regifting the prizes to the Daily Wire and Breitbart.
In any event, Trump’s newest lawyers have settled on the Pulitzer Board’s anodyne reaffirmation as the Defamatory Statement that will underpants gnome them into a viable libel suit…
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We note, that the letter is dated October 13 and demands that the “Defamatory Statement” be removed from the Pulitzer Board’s website within five days. It’s still up, but, hell, maybe these guys think they can get Judge Aileen Cannon, and somehow make this pile of dog vomit a thing.
Good luck, fellas!….