Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared, are threatening to sue The Lincoln Project for posting unflattering billboards of them in Times Square just days before the election.
In a letter sent over the weekend, attorneys for the couple complained about one billboard that uses Ivanka’s infamous Goya beans photo to highlight the more than 33,000 New Yorkers and 221,000 Americans who have died from the coronavirus, and another one that shows Jared next to a bunch of body bags and a 2019 quote from him talking about how New Yorkers are going to “suffer.”
Attorney Marc Kasowitz called the billboards “false, malicious and defamatory,” adding that if they are “not immediately removed, we will sue you for what will doubtless be enormous compensatory and punitive damages.”
If it’s Goya, it has to be good.
Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno. pic.twitter.com/9tjVrfmo9z— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) July 15, 2020
But The Lincoln Project says it isn’t taking the billboards down, arguing that they accurately depict the Trump administration’s lackadaisical attitude toward the coronavirus pandemic.
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“The level of indignant outrage Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have shown towards The Lincoln Project for exposing their indifference for the more than 223,000 people who have lost their lives due to their reckless mismanagement of COVID-19 is comical,” the group said in a statement.
“While we truly enjoy living rent free in their heads, their empty threats will not be taken any more seriously than we take Ivanka and Jared,” it added. “It is unsurprising that an administration that has never had any regard or understanding of our Constitution would try to trample on our first amendment rights but we fully intend on making this civics lesson as painful as possible.”
Scroll down for some memes from Ivanka’s infamous and ill-advised Goya endorsement…
“It’s our family go-to against Covid19.” pic.twitter.com/dx89IzepbZ
— LGBTQ+Resist 🏳️🌈 (@Dyke67ny) July 15, 2020
— 🔻 Bob Estropajo 🔻 (@BobEstropajo) July 15, 2020
Who likes Hot Pockets more, @NunesAlt? I think she’s faking. pic.twitter.com/NjpNqUUjI2
— DevinNunesTHEDragQueen (@NunesDrag) July 15, 2020
Ahhh, the absolutely shameless Ivanka Trump endless grift continues… pic.twitter.com/M9BJ1RYvbL
— Matt Johnson (@HotPockets4All) July 15, 2020
Now, the un-doctored REAL photo@GoyaFoods #BoycottGoya pic.twitter.com/p2SasX8l7I
— Glenn (@14Truth14) July 15, 2020
“Daddy’s favorite book” says Ivanka Trump. “He read it to me every night as a child. He’s not a racist. It’s just a book.” pic.twitter.com/DDH2rXc0Xq
— Parallel News 1 (@parallelnewsone) July 15, 2020
— 🏴☠️ Shane 8 days 🌊🗳🇺🇸😷 (@egheitasean) July 15, 2020
Nice! pic.twitter.com/sywrcPXXPm
— Piercey (@lazypoolboy) July 15, 2020
Heywood Jablowme
Maybe after Ivanka gets out of prison she can do a game show. Vanna White is getting up in years!
Mister P
Lock her up!!! Shave her head !!!!
WashDrySpin
While, I would love all of Trump’s family and himself to go to jail…my goal is to get them out of theWhite House by VOTING and encouraging others to do the same!!!
trsxyz
Amen to that!!
Cam
THREATENING to sue is what you do when you don’t’ have a winning case but are hoping to scare somebody.
Apparently Ivanka and Jared were dumb enough to think that the Lincoln Project was the same as those small contractors they would threaten to sue to get out of paying what they owed.
This group is made up of people who are either lawyers, or know the best DC and NY Lawyers out there. Not only won’t they be scared, but they are DYING for Ja-Vanka to file suit. Because that would mean that they could then subpeona all of their emails, phone, and text records having anything to do with Coronavirus.
Those two small time grifters are in way over their heads.
Liquid Silver
Sorry, kids. Satire is allowable. Political satire is practically a gimme.
Openminded
I agree. All’s fair in politics. However, I don’t really care to see people take the low road and use pics or quotes of those they attack that are taken out of context. They would not have had to worked very hard to find disparaging photos of the Trumps doing disgusting things. In the end though, the truth is still the truth and nobody can erase that. Voters will soon send the message back.
WSnyder
Unlike those Conservative Pundits who wrongly cry foul when their shows get boycotted and having their sponsors pull out and insist their First Amendment Rights are being violated [it does NOT apply to them as they’re in the private sector], Ivanka IS a Government Official and therefor at the b*tch end of people using their First Amendment Rights to target her with harsh criticism.
If she thinks she has a case, sue. I’m sure your lawyers have already told you you have no case but they’ll still cash those checks if you wanna try…Dear. BTW, if she wants a civics lesson, just watch what happens to your Daddy when he leaves office and people hit him with literally dozens of defamation and slander lawsuits for what he’s said and Tweeted over the past five years. People wouldn’t sue due to him being President and as such they knew their suits would go no where. But out of Office? Yeah, he’ll be fair game.
nathan
As two people who have voluntarily put themselves in the public eye by accepting politically appointed jobs, they are legitimate targets for criticism and satirical comedy. Neither is qualified for he positions they now fill and boh have used their positions to enrich themselves. If they think those billboards are unduly harsh, I can’t imagine how the threat of a jail cell will appeal after November 4.
dhmonarch89
did any one tell the bitch that it was ILLEGAL for her- as a White House employee, to hold up/advertising a can of beans in the first place? She can be prosecuted for that.
IndependentForever
Their ( Princess Ivanka and Jared The Jerk ) actions and deeds coupled with this threat to sue the Lincoln Project over an altered, unflattering billboard would actually be funny if not for the current state of the country and this crime family’s conduct the last 4-5 years.
Dumb Donald’s campaign has used altered items against Joe Biden. It really is typical Trump and Republican behavior. They are all about, for example, 1st Amendment rights. As it pertains to them. Being the hypocrites they are, it is fine for them to use altered photos, etc. However, let the opposition try it and their whining and crying would have you believe the world is ending.
This country can do and DESERVES better leadership. We have to rid ourselves of the Trump crime family. Of Moscow Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham, among others next Tuesday.
dhmonarch89
I wish there was a like button to click for comments… instead we have to reply. This comment was spot on!
dannyboi2
Karma, baby- you reap what you sow.
alex1435
She a dreadful person just like her idiot husband. I hope she will always be linked to her stupid father’s horrible presidency, I hope he is voted out of office or we could get stuck with her later on.
mecmass
This is just one more example of the sense of arrogance and self-entitlement of the Trump family.
How many decent people have they mocked, degraded, slandered, liabled, lied about, called all sorts of ugly names — and continue to do so? And the snooty bitch things that she can sue someone for publishing the truth? SMH. Just SMH.
Good Lord, i can’t wait for the day when that whole rotten to the core clan is indicted and jailed.
butchqueen
I hope all her domestic staff quits.