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Donald Trump Threatens To Sue Lincoln Project For Aggravated Streisand Effect
https://abovethelaw.com/2024/08/donald-trump-threatens-to-sue-lincoln-project-for-aggravated-streisand-effect/Donald Trump Threatens To Sue Lincoln Project For Aggravated Streisand Effect
I'm not mad. Please don't let them put in the paper that I got mad
By LIZ DYE
on August 20, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Donald Trump, the king of earned media, is once again providing free publicity to the Lincoln Project.
The Trump campaign and its stable of amazing lawyers fired off a round of cease and desist letters to various media outlets who are running a Lincoln Project ad called “Failure” that needles campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita along with Trump’s pollster Tony Fabrizio for failing to anticipate President Biden’s withdrawal from the race.
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Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson, who has also been around the block once or twice, was delighted, and made a beeline to the show’s YouTube channel to invite the campaign to stick its C&D in the candidate’s “fetid orange ass.”
“You can send every lawyer letter you want. You will never take us to court,” Wilson taunted the former president. “If you sue us, we’ll get in there and we’ll start talking about where all the money goes in the Trump campaign. Because you and I both know, Donald, that you are skimming off enormous percentages of the cash from your campaign. We know it. You know it.”
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I'm not mad. Please don't let them put in the paper that I got mad
By LIZ DYE
on August 20, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Donald Trump, the king of earned media, is once again providing free publicity to the Lincoln Project.
The Trump campaign and its stable of amazing lawyers fired off a round of cease and desist letters to various media outlets who are running a Lincoln Project ad called “Failure” that needles campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita along with Trump’s pollster Tony Fabrizio for failing to anticipate President Biden’s withdrawal from the race.
[...]
Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson, who has also been around the block once or twice, was delighted, and made a beeline to the show’s YouTube channel to invite the campaign to stick its C&D in the candidate’s “fetid orange ass.”
“You can send every lawyer letter you want. You will never take us to court,” Wilson taunted the former president. “If you sue us, we’ll get in there and we’ll start talking about where all the money goes in the Trump campaign. Because you and I both know, Donald, that you are skimming off enormous percentages of the cash from your campaign. We know it. You know it.”
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Chump's lawyers use the THREAT of a lawsuit in order to scare people into doing Chump's bidding. But Rick Wilson has no fear ... he says "Bring it on!"
If it ever went to court (it won't) Rick's lawyers would use the opportunity to grill Chump about his campaign finances and the fact that he's skimming huge amounts off the top of every donation to his campaign. Chump's lawyers would never allow that to happen because they know he's flouting the campaign finance laws.
Therefore Chump's threats are useless, and he can pound salt. This is the perfect strategy for anyone who receives a sternly-worded letter from Chump's lawyers.
