Donald Trump, an ex-American President has a growning list of supporters who have been the subject of accounting for Serial Lying, Un-Truths, Miscues, and Outright Bull Shit by Civil Courts around the country….
As the headline states….
To the tune of ONE BILLION DOLLARS PLUS…..
Throw in the $787.5 million Fox News agreed to pay a voting machine company over bogus theories that it aired bolstering Trump’s stolen-election claims and the $148 million judgment against Giuliani, and the combined bill is north of $1 billion — and potentially growing, thanks to Lake’s capitulation and other lawsuits.
The Trump political movement has long had a truth problem. That has now manifested itself as a very expensive defamation problem.
As well as anything, these defamation cases lay bare just how careless and demagogic the MAGA movement has become….
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Politics has always involved stretching the truth about your political opponents. But it tends to be done with a deft touch and plausible deniability. What we have today is a movement, led by the President of 30,000 False or Misleading Claims, that is increasingly shameless about spreading the thinnest and most debunkable of claims about supposedly nefarious opponents.
The sum total: Serial defamers could figure heavily into the Republican Party’s hopes of retaking both the presidency and the Senate….