Politico: Trump filing in suit against Twitter compares former president to Galileo

[brooklynite]

A new legal brief in Donald Trump’s battle against social media giants makes some novel arguments about the former president as he accuses Twitter and the U.S. government of violating the First Amendment by suppressing misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 election.

The 96-page filing submitted to the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday contends that Twitter and the federal government are working to “suppress opinions and information about matters that Americans consider of vital interest.”

Those matters include the source of the virus that caused the pandemic, the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines, the validity of the 2020 election results, and the legitimacy of documents from a hard drive allegedly belonging to President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, the court filing says.

The brief likens Trump to Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who was persecuted by the Catholic Church for promulgating the belief that the Earth revolved around the sun.

“Most people once believed these to be crackpot ideas; many still do. But crackpot ideas sometimes turn out to be true. The earth does revolve around the sun, and it was Hunter Biden, not Russian disinformation agents, who dropped off a laptop full of incriminating evidence at a repair shop in Delaware,” Trump’s lawyers wrote. “Galileo spent his remaining days under house arrest for spreading heretical ideas, and thousands of dissidents today are arrested or killed by despotic governments eager to suppress ideas they disapprove of. But this is not the American way.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/14/new-trump-suit-against-twitter-compares-former-president-to-galileo-00066802

[JohnSJ]

1. Another frivolous lawsuit, and a total distortion of the first amendment. Is Twitter a government

agency?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. "house arrest"? That would be a good start for tRump, the flight risk. . . . nt

[2naSalit]

3. Right?

He should be sequestered to keep him from continuing to foment hatred, at least.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. Galileo would not have looked directly at the sun during a solar eclipse.

[70sEraVet]

5. So he's now comparing himself to Galileo. That's an improvement in terms of his mental health

He used to compare himself to the messiah!

[ChazInAz]

6. He's forgetting a vital point.

Galileo was right.
He was a polymath, able to back up his conclusions with evidentiary proofs. Mathematician, one-time medical student, artist, musician, college professor, natural philosopher (Scientist, to us mortals!), and one helluva writer. He was also known for pouring withering scorn, in print, upon shoddy thinkers.

[ananda]

7. God, that is laugh out loud funny!

[Justice matters.]

8. It's pathetic that these frivolous lawsuits are allowed to be filed!

I hope the Judges will slam the greedy lawyers who filed that (other) big farcical joke of a lawsuit without ANY credible evidence backing its allegations with fines and threats of losing their license.

[Martin68]

9. That's what happens when you surround yourself with sycophants, yes-men, and ass-kissers.

Whoever wrote that probably just wanted to Trump to notice them.

[2live is 2fly]

10. Yeah keep wondering why you lost the fucking election[s] dickhead! Only tfg would

consider himself such a misunderstood wise and courageous do-gooder & freedom fighter. And only tfg could compare himself to the multi-talented, highly intelligent while religiously persecuted Galileo. And only tfg would consider himself in the same class & equal to Lincoln, F.D.R, J.F.K. and Reagan (rolled into one) as he mistakenly sees this filing as just one more patriotic mission of his, for truth, justice, and the American way! Ahhh Christ, where's the fricken tylenol!?!