'Fire And Fury' Publisher: Trump Cease-And-Desist 'Flagrantly Unconstitutional'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ESME CRIBB Published JANUARY 8, 2018 1:54 PM
The CEO of Macmillan, the parent company of the publisher behind Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” on Monday said the company will not acquiesce to a demand from President Donald Trump’s lawyer to cease distributing the book.
In a memo to employees, obtained by TPM, Macmillan CEO John Sargent said the letter from Trump’s lawyer Charles Harder was “a clear effort by the President of the United States to intimidate a publisher into halting publication of an important book on the workings of the government.”
“That is something that no American court would order as it is flagrantly unconstitutional,” Sargent said.
He cited the Pentagon Papers case, which involved the leak of a secret Defense Department report on U.S. involvement in Vietnam, The New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, a case which established the actual malice standard for libel claims, and The Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart, a case where the Supreme Court ruled prior restraint unconstitutional.
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Too bad he is now dealing with large entities who hire bigly lawyers. 