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RandySF

(84,329 posts)
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 03:49 PM Aug 2023

Trump Attacks Georgia DA Fani Willis, Baselessly Claims She Had An Affair With a Gang Member

Former President Donald Trump launched a personal attack on Fulton County DA Fani Willis on Tuesday, calling her a “racist” and accusing her of having an affair with a gang leader she was investigating.

“And I probably have another where they say there’s a young woman, a young racist in Atlanta, they say racist,” Trump declared, referring to a likely fourth indictment.

“And they say, I guess they say that she was after a certain gang and she ended up having an affair with the head of the gang or a gang member. And this is a person that wants to indict me. She’s got a lot of problems, but she wants to indict me to try and run for some other office,” he claimed, adding:

What’s going on in this country is, by the way, wants to indict me for a perfect phone call. This was even better than my perfect call with Ukraine. Remember that call? That was a perfect call. This one’s better. This one is more perfect.




https://www.mediaite.com/politics/just-in-trump-attacks-georgia-da-fani-willis-baselessly-claims-she-had-an-affair-with-a-gang-member/
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Trump Attacks Georgia DA Fani Willis, Baselessly Claims She Had An Affair With a Gang Member (Original Post) RandySF Aug 2023 OP
That's it. I'm taking tfg off my list of potential MENSA nominees. LuckyCharms Aug 2023 #1
OK, that was REALLY funny! rog Aug 2023 #6
I thought TFG was so dumb... mwooldri Aug 2023 #20
Please God, call your idiot errant son home while we still have a country! justhanginon Aug 2023 #2
Please Satan, fixed it for you Wild blueberry Aug 2023 #17
...doesn't need the competition...... lastlib Aug 2023 #27
I have never heard him call a white person a racist Walleye Aug 2023 #3
Repeating what someone else says, without checking as to its veracity is still defamation. Ms. Toad Aug 2023 #4
Trump will spend the rest of his life in litigation at this rate. RandySF Aug 2023 #10
I certainly hope so. n/t Ms. Toad Aug 2023 #11
Can't help hoping Marthe48 Aug 2023 #16
hair fuerhair doesn't listen to whatever advice his salt-less attorneys Justice matters. Aug 2023 #22
trump said Ashli Babbit was holding others back when shot, DontBelieveEastisEas Aug 2023 #39
A lie is different from defamation. Ms. Toad Aug 2023 #42
I wish I could find the transcript or video DontBelieveEastisEas Aug 2023 #43
Is this The Onion? gab13by13 Aug 2023 #5
The sound of desperation. roamer65 Aug 2023 #7
Yeah this is trump backed in the corner Cha Aug 2023 #8
Wow, he just opened a VERY LARGE door didn't he? FakeNoose Aug 2023 #9
Please "proceed" through the door! DontBelieveEastisEas Aug 2023 #40
This from a guy said he wanted to fuck his own daughter PCIntern Aug 2023 #12
he wants to be a martyr in jail so chaos will reign mucifer Aug 2023 #13
I agree EYESORE 9001 Aug 2023 #15
He may think that would happen. rubbersole Aug 2023 #19
Assuming NowISeetheLight Aug 2023 #14
Panic much Donny? Botany Aug 2023 #18
Melania married one lame54 Aug 2023 #21
Yes, exactly! txwhitedove Aug 2023 #23
He says 'whatever' and his worshippers immediately repeat it as gospel. Mr. Evil Aug 2023 #24
Fanni Wllis now joins the highly honorable and respectable club of women... Jrose Aug 2023 #25
(you left off Stormy........) nt lastlib Aug 2023 #28
Yes, Stormy, too... Thanks! Jrose Aug 2023 #31
This particular bullshit claim seems most similar to... jcgoldie Aug 2023 #30
Rosie O'Donnell perhaps one of the first that was well known to have occurred DontBelieveEastisEas Aug 2023 #41
Refuses to learn a thing from the Carroll def. suit. bluestarone Aug 2023 #26
OMG... walls closing in much, *rump? (LOL) slightlv Aug 2023 #29
One of the newer dictionaries has to have changed the definition of asshole SouthernDem4ever Aug 2023 #32
I think Adam Kinzinger called it. "He's going insane." He will call for arms as a last ditch if Evolve Dammit Aug 2023 #33
He wants another slander suit, to disqualify her. I hope she doesn't rise to the bait. marble falls Aug 2023 #34
And he'll repeat it constantly, knowing his cult will eventually spread it. oldsoftie Aug 2023 #35
You go after me, I come after you is all-inclusive. kentuck Aug 2023 #36
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Blue Owl Aug 2023 #37
This is the point on the road where DjT is holding a puffed up stink bomb... Jrose Aug 2023 #38
Right. All women are whores. Especially black female judges. milestogo Aug 2023 #44

rog

(944 posts)
6. OK, that was REALLY funny!
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 03:55 PM
Aug 2023

Thanks for turning incomprehensible gibberish into a lot of fun.

.rog.

Walleye

(44,807 posts)
3. I have never heard him call a white person a racist
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 03:53 PM
Aug 2023

My god, can he at least get AI he can’t take a writing class

Ms. Toad

(38,643 posts)
4. Repeating what someone else says, without checking as to its veracity is still defamation.
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 03:53 PM
Aug 2023

This is defamation per se, since it alleges conduct related to her employment.

He always says "they say" to distance himself from the accusations - to give him deniability. It doesn't work that way with defamtion - if he had an attorney worth their salt they would have told him that.

Anyone who repeats defamation, without verifying its veracity, is liable for defamation. Once this mess is over, she should join E. Jean Carroll in suing Trump into oblivion.

Justice matters.

(9,790 posts)
22. hair fuerhair doesn't listen to whatever advice his salt-less attorneys
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 05:38 PM
Aug 2023

... tell him. (Nor to anyone else.)

DontBelieveEastisEas

(1,211 posts)
39. trump said Ashli Babbit was holding others back when shot,
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 08:26 PM
Aug 2023

using this method.

That is a lie, of course. I say it is a lie so that no one is sucked into believing it, that might read this post.

Would the police officer have a case against trump?

Ms. Toad

(38,643 posts)
42. A lie is different from defamation.
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 08:38 PM
Aug 2023

Defamation is

A false statement asserted as fact
about a person who is identifiable from the statement
made with malice (knowledge or reckless disregard) or negligence as to its truth
communicated to at least one other person
the nature of which would tend to lower the reputation of that person in the eyes of the community (some inherently have this nature - like statements made about one's performance of one's job)
Which causes financial harm (this doens't have to be proven if the statement is inherently demeaning)

So it is a statement asserted as fact and it was communicated to at least one other person.

But it fails the other tests because the statement (at least as you are sharing it) is about Ashli Babbit, not the officer

DontBelieveEastisEas

(1,211 posts)
43. I wish I could find the transcript or video
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 08:48 PM
Aug 2023

But, the statement is also about the shooter. It says that the shooter murdered her, or at least wrongfully killed her.

There may be financial harm in that, as his reputation is harmed. It reflects on how he did his job.
It is certainly demeaning, I think.

I feel repulsed that trump gets away with destroying that mans reputation, while also putting him in harms way.

PCIntern

(28,370 posts)
12. This from a guy said he wanted to fuck his own daughter
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 04:24 PM
Aug 2023

Because… That’s what “date” means with a prick like this. He wanted to “date” his daughter. Fuckwad.

mucifer

(25,667 posts)
13. he wants to be a martyr in jail so chaos will reign
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 04:30 PM
Aug 2023

With the people who love him and each have scores of military grade weapons.

That’s my conspiracy theory.

EYESORE 9001

(29,732 posts)
15. I agree
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 04:46 PM
Aug 2023

I think he wants to go to jail briefly so he can have a ghostwriter put together his homage to Hitler - a new installment of Mein Kampf It doesn’t matter that he’d be the most mollycoddled prisoner in history.

rubbersole

(11,223 posts)
19. He may think that would happen.
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 05:21 PM
Aug 2023

Two weeks incommunicado and the 'media' would move on. lil' donnie could learn how to make toilet wine and toss a salad.

NowISeetheLight

(4,002 posts)
14. Assuming
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 04:37 PM
Aug 2023

Assuming she never had an affair, isn't this defamation of character? He's not protected by Immunity AZ President anymore. She should sue him.

Botany

(77,324 posts)
18. Panic much Donny?
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 05:20 PM
Aug 2023

So it was Fani Willis' racism that made you interfere with the Georgia 2020 vote counting?

I wonder who has flipped on TFG in Fani Willis' investigation into TFG? I see that Rudy has
admitted to lying about those 2 pole workers and Lindsey Graham has gotten real quite about
"it" too.

Mr. Evil

(3,457 posts)
24. He says 'whatever' and his worshippers immediately repeat it as gospel.
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 06:09 PM
Aug 2023

Tomorrow he'll burp something like she's a former escort and has had 10 abortions. You know, "I've heard, people are saying..."

I literally can't wait for that spunkstain to die. Im exhausted.

Jrose

(1,532 posts)
25. Fanni Wllis now joins the highly honorable and respectable club of women...
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 06:19 PM
Aug 2023

who have been publicly branded by DjT as 'racist and/or nasty, lying, horrible women':

Nancy Pelosi
Hillary Clinton
Liz Cheney
E. Jeanne Carroll
T. Chutkan
Stacy Abrams
Megan Rapinoe
Britney Griner

jcgoldie

(12,046 posts)
30. This particular bullshit claim seems most similar to...
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 06:31 PM
Aug 2023

...the shit the right has hurled at Kamala Harris for years.

slightlv

(7,790 posts)
29. OMG... walls closing in much, *rump? (LOL)
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 06:26 PM
Aug 2023

Let's see... one of his lawyers has to be in Florida on Thursday? One in DC on Friday. And now this screed to Fani Willis. This sounds like he's gotten some notice that an indictment is about to drop in GA. I could only hope that it drops on Friday!!! How perfectly wonderful that would be. Talk about a no good bad week for *rump! (LOL) Do you think he might be getting the idea now that people are tired of his schtick and are fed up with this national security nightmare?

SouthernDem4ever

(6,619 posts)
32. One of the newer dictionaries has to have changed the definition of asshole
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 06:36 PM
Aug 2023

adding Donald Trump to the list of definitions.

Evolve Dammit

(21,777 posts)
33. I think Adam Kinzinger called it. "He's going insane." He will call for arms as a last ditch if
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 06:38 PM
Aug 2023

ever convicted. IF.

 

oldsoftie

(13,538 posts)
35. And he'll repeat it constantly, knowing his cult will eventually spread it.
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 06:51 PM
Aug 2023

It is truly a cult. Something I never thought I'd see for a politician in this country. I NEVER thought I'd see people parading thru towns with flags of a FORMER president. WELL before he announced. Pictures, posters, etc. Its disgusting.
I'm at a point I never thought I'd be with him. But I wont go any further because of the legal consequences
I'm ashamed.

kentuck

(115,407 posts)
36. You go after me, I come after you is all-inclusive.
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 06:54 PM
Aug 2023

To anybody that would challenge his authority.

Blue Owl

(59,111 posts)
37. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 06:56 PM
Aug 2023

Dump is resorting to the lowest of roads -- stick a fork in him, he's done!!!

Jrose

(1,532 posts)
38. This is the point on the road where DjT is holding a puffed up stink bomb...
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 07:01 PM
Aug 2023

...while, all around him on cliffs and rooftops are legal 'sharpshooters'!

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