CNN lawyer mocks Trump campaign's demand to retract poll - and explains 'how free speech works'

[riversedge]

Source: raw story



Published 1 min ago on June 10, 2020



CNN’s legal department sent a letter in response to the threats from President Donald Trump’s campaign over their recent poll showing the president losing handily to Vice President Joe Biden.

“To my knowledge, this is the first time in its 40 year history that CNN had been threatened with legal action because an American politician or campaign did not like CNN’s polling results,” the letter begins.
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Trump, who spent the first part of the Black Lives Matter protests in the White House bunker, has been trying to show himself as a strong and powerful leader. Critics question the campaign’s complaints because the freakout flies in the face of Trump’s tough-guy persona. ..............................................

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/cnn-lawyer-mocks-trump-campaigns-demand-to-retract-poll-and-explains-how-free-speech-works/

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. The con, the Con, the Don, Don the Con

So push polling and fake momentum, which was after all part of Mitt's bag of tricks 2012, is one tactic Don the Con intends to use to distort the minds of American voters.

Take this story for what it tells us. It is CONFESSION!

[pwb]

2. When I think of tough I do not think of Trump. Just

the opposite

[area51]

3. Dementia Donnie hates CNN,

so why does he care what they say? He needs them to say Biden is ahead because he'll tell his followers, "fake news".

[Skittles]

4. Trump believes in the Fox News version of free speech

FUCKING SNOWFLAKE

[howardmappel]

5. Simply and shorter reply: "See Arkell v. Pressdram." n/t

[Lucky Luciano]

6. They should send a response much like the second letter below responding to the first - HAHA

[ashling]

17. Great!

[safeinOhio]

7. I think that CNN should have added to the note

that most Americans are laughing at you and your tweets. Now that would really hurt his poor little feelings.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. The prominence, certainty, and seriousness with which the White House delivered this nonsense

Is this near the end game of what Trump's war on the press was all about, to distort, lie, obscure, suppress any adverse information that might impact reelection efforts?

You can get away with anything if there are no facts, no science, no logic, no truth? You can pollute, murder, steal, obliterate? Could you even destroy the currency by goading toadies into printing so much money it becomes worthless?

[ace3csusm]

9. CNN Said hurtful thing, Im going to the bunker

I mean inspect the bunker

[keithbvadu2]

10. Did Trump's threat come by way of a lawyer's signature?

Did Trump's threat come by way of a lawyer's signature?

Did a real lawyer put his name to it?

[Stuart G]

11. I do think Trump is unaware of the 1st Ammendment of the Constitution that he has sworn to protect.

He and his crowd that published that demand to take back the story or whatever, haven't got a clue.
So stupid that they would take on the "Constitution of the United States of America" ..for a totally
cheap publicity stunt. Donald Trump is/was and always will be...too stupid to know he is stupid

[LanternWaste]

12. Scratch the fake tan off, and we're left with nothing but a triggered snowflake.

Cowering in his bunker, hiding from peaceful American citizens and threatening the news media for, well... reporting news.

He really is the gold standard of the GOP... Spray-On Family Values (by two and get free shipping... and we'll throw in our patented Patriotism Applique, a $20 value free if you act now).

[Metro135]

13. Trump sues everyone and everything

So no surprise. If he stepped on a wad of gum he'd sue Wrigley's

[relayerbob]

14. Perfect

[LudwigPastorius]

15. Are you telling me that this tough leader, this self-made man against all odds, this...

guy who pals around with strongmen like Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin doesn't have the intestinal fortitude to withstand a little bad news?


I'm shocked!

[ashling]

16. Didn't he try some shit like this in 2016?

???????

[manhattan123]

18. Ironically, Fox News polls are just as bad for him

It actually seems to be the one part of Fox that is legit. The polling unit is pretty well respected across the board and seen in the political world as the real deal. (Trump has whined about it in the past.)

Speaking of...I wonder where Shep Smith is these days? He was the one semi-sane voice on Fox airwaves.