And so it begins.
Proud gay Republican Peter Thiel has officially set a new precedent. After using his billions to bankroll Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media, which resulted in the company being sued out of existence, other self-proclaimed members of America’s billionaire class are now following suit.
Related: Lights Out At Gawker: Nick Denton Publishes Scathing Attack On Peter Thiel In Final Post
Melania Trump just hired the same team of lawyers who represented Hogan against Gawker Media to threaten several media outlets, large and small, with defamation lawsuits after they wrote unfavorably about her alleged past.
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Her lawyer, Charles Harder, just sent a letter to several media organizations, including the Daily Mail, Politico, The Week, and The Inquisitr, placing them “on notice” after they ran a story claiming the 46-year-old model once worked as an escort in the early 1990s.
In the letter, Harder calls the reports “100% false, highly damaging to her reputation, and personally hurtful.”
(We can’t help but note the irony in the wife of America’s biggest bully complaining about having her feelings hurt.)
He also says that “outright lying about her in this way exceeds all bounds of appropriate news reporting and human decency” and adds that Mrs. Trump has suffered severe emotional distress and feels her privacy has been invaded.
Related: Rush Limbaugh: Melania’s Revealing Photos Will Win Trump LGBTQ Vote
The letter demands the publications apologize and retract the stories immediately or be faced with a lawsuit which, these days, could mean being sued out of existence and having their reporters, editors, and their families financially ruined for life.
As of yesterday, several of the sites had already caved to the demands, publishing apologies and retractions. Though not everyone seemed very remorseful.
In his apology, titled Trump Lawyers Said Melania Didn’t F**k For Money, Forced Us To Apologize, So Here It Is, Andrew Bradford at the blog Liberal America said he was sorry “that the personal image of the wannabe first lady is so insecure that she feels the need to send her legal hell-hounds chasing after small, independent journalists such as me.”
Related: Twitter Wastes No Time Coming For Melania Trump’s “Borrowed” Michelle Obama Speech
In other Melania Trump news, Mother Jones uncovered that the Trump campaign paid a grand total of $356.01 to the woman who allegedly wrote Melania’s plagiarized speech for the RNC last month. Evidently, they don’t hold writers of any sort, even those working for them, in very high regard.
stadacona
The liberal media is so depraved and dishonest they deserve what is coming to them. Go Melania!
CWM85
Serves them right. Just like gawker but you all defend gawker? Disgusting… queerty you guys are really getting trashy.
Mack
All those agencies did was reprint what was already out there. I guess the right wing Log Cabin feels they have to support Melania and maybe someone might recognize them. God knows they’ve tried for years to get the Republican Party to.
robho3
It’s this really happening ?
Kangol
She clearly lied about her education. Personally I couldn’t care less about whether she went to school or not, but if she claimed under oath that she graduated from several schools, she committed perjury. As for her past as a model and whatever else she was, it’s her business so long as she’s not climbing on a moral high horse and denouncing others’ lives, experiences and sexual behavior.
Heywood Jablowme
Melanoma Trump should stop worrying about that and prepare for the day, not far off, when Donald dumps her for Wife No. 4.
Brian
What about that fake lesbian photo-shoot Melania Trump allegedly did 20 years ago? It was on the front of the New York Post.
When women do fake lesbian photo shoots, it often means they are prepared to do almost anything for money.
Harley
So how does a young beautiful woman marry an old, fat, ugly, balding man with little hands but also happens to be a (cough, cough) a billionaire not be considered a prostitute? She married the man for money. Nough said.
zipperzone
Should D.T. dump her for wife # 4, I’m sure that the gold digger has contemplated the possibility and made sure she has enough $$$ tucked away to make her future life comfortable. And that’s not taking into account the $$$ she will extract from him in a divorce settlement. Ever if there is a prenup, she probably knows enough dirt to persuade his to pay up.
And if he – God forbid – does win in November there is no way he will divorce her during his 4 year term. The fallout of what could be divulged in court boggles the imagination.
Dave Downunder
Can you imagine what kind of first lady this woman will make if the unthinkable happens and Trump wins. Taking the role after Michelle is a big call.
Alistair Wiseman
Only in the moral bankruptcy of the left is it to “bully (the) media” when you demand publications not defame you by calling you, without proof, a former paid whore.
Apparently, there are still leftist publications that have learned nothing from the recent Gawker bankruptcy.
arig82
Risk. Being dragged through the mud, even by innuendo, is the risk you take when your husband runs for office. It has been for ages. For effs sake Josephine Bonaparte was also called a dumb bimbo back in the day. Our precious billionaires mustn’t be so quick to complain and expose their weaknesses. All that it takes is for one, just one lawsuit to be lost and this whole strategy will back fire on them. This poor woman, is going to be called out and that’s not nice, it sucks, but she volunteered for this. And I have no sympathy for her, or Peter Thiel. Our media is an institution that we depend on. It is bitchy and tends to get carried away but so are we. Deal with it!!!!
DCguy
If they had a case they would have already filed suit. Reporting that another news outlets ran a story is not libelous.
This type of tactic.might work against the small businesses her husband doesn’t pay, but not against big media. Now why don’t we talk about her plagiarized speech she claimed she wrote, then tried to blame on somebody who doesn’t exist. Or maybe her husband’s taxes?
Mo Bro
Why aren’t there ever any stories here showcasing Hillary’s lying, corruption, and inability to play by the rules?
Oh yeah—this is a dedicated liberal site committed to putting Democrats in office, even if said Democrats are corrupt liars who can’t lead. Now THAT’S pride!
The Tower of Power
@Alistair Wiseman: There is a legal remedy to reporters who are threatened by defamation lawsuits in many states in the USA called an anti-SLAPP law. It is designed to stop wealthy people from using defamation lawsuits to silence critics because the law allows to defendant to immediately have a probable cause hearing rather than have to spend months spending money of a legal defense.
It was designed because many wealthy people do not intend to win defamation lawsuits. They only intend to make a legs defense to them so expensive that the people they sue silence themselves
Brian
There is a strong link between fake-bisexual women and female prostitution. Recall that there were a couple of old photos of Melania Trump with another woman on the cover of the NY Post recently. Is it not possible for one to think that she did other things of a sexualized nature?
One has to wonder about her morals, in any case. Women who do fake-lesbian photo-shoots for the benefit of sleazy straight guys are among the most homophobic women out there. Their services to the sleazy straight guy fantasy are a form of selling, aren’t they?
ingyaom
She probably was an escort. She married Drumpf for his money, didn’t she (assuming he has any)? What does that make her?
negro
But you’re faggots, so this point is invalid.
muh homuhfobya!
DMRX
@Brian: What do you get high on to come up with these diatribes? Share please.