[Ace of Spades] - "Federal Judge throws out Stormy Danials lawsuit versus Trump. Trump is entitled to full legal fees." @FoxNews Great, now I can go after Horseface and her 3rd rate lawyer in the Great State of Texas. She will confirm the letter she signed! She knows nothing about me, a total con!
[Bloomberg] Stormy Daniels's libel lawsuit over a tweet by Donald Trump accusing her of "a total con job" was thrown out by a judge who said the president was engaging in free speech.
The adult film star, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, claimed she was threatened by an unknown man in a Las Vegas parking lot in 2011 for agreeing to cooperate with a magazine article about a tryst she says she had with Trump in 2006. After her lawyer released a composite sketch of the man, Trump accused Clifford in an April tweet of "a total con job" concerning a "nonexistent man." who looked strikingly like her now-ex-husband
"The court agrees with Mr. Trump's argument because the tweet in question constitutes ‘rhetorical hyperbole' normally associated with politics and public discourse in the U.S.," U.S. District Judge S. James Otero in Los Angeles said in a ruling Monday. "The First Amendment protects this type of rhetorical statement."
Trump's lawyers had argued that Clifford -- far from being harmed -- has benefited financially from her public dispute with the president.
"We will appeal the dismissal of the defamation cause of action and are confident in a reversal," Clifford's lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said in a statement. "There is something really rich in Trump relying on the First Amendment to justify defaming a woman." "We want 15 more minutes!"
The judge awarded Trump reasonable attorney’s fees. good luck getting that except in moist dollar bills. Avenatti's broke
"No amount of spin or commentary by Stormy Daniels or her lawyer, Mr. Avenatti, can truthfully characterize today's ruling in any way other than total victory for President Trump and total defeat for Stormy Daniels," Trump's lawyer, Charles Harder, said in a statement.
The case is Clifford v. Trump, 18-cv-06893, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Los Angeles).
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All those people that donated to the Stormy Daniels defense fund actually donated money indirectly to Donald Trump. Not my original comment but it made me laugh.
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According to the ruling, Trump was engaging in “hyperbolic rhetoric”, which is part of normal political discourse in the US and is protected under the First Amendment.
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#5 According to the ruling, Trump was engaging in “hyperbolic rhetoric”, which is part of normal political discourse in the US and is protected under the First Amendment.
In essence, the same protection of the First Amendment that allows Demoncrats to call Trump an illegitimate president also allows Trump to call what Stormy did a con job.
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What other time has the ho had to pay the politician?
That is why hos should never sue their clients.
Al
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#5 According to the ruling, Trump was engaging in “hyperbolic rhetoric”, which is part of normal political discourse in the US and is protected under the First Amendment. --KBK
If *multiple* people can call Bush a (quote) War Criminal (un-quote) and call for "...his prosecution like Hitler" and that is A-Okay under the First Amendment...!?! A "con job" is pretty weak.
The third video of the Project Veritas 2018 pre-election series. Video can be seen at the link.
Video 1: Oregon governor Kate Brown can be seen here.
Video 2: Tennessee senatorial candidate Phil Bredesen can beseen here.
[ProjectVeritas]
Senator McCaskill on Tape: “Of course!” She Would Vote Yes on Gun Bans”
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The liberal problem is that when they explain what they truly stand for the voters are revolted. They assume they just didn't explain clearly but attempts to explain better are just as revolting.
Better to not tell the ignorant voters who don't know what's best for them anyway.
[INVESTORS] Elections: American democracy has a problem ‐ a voting problem. According to a new study of U.S. Census data, America has more registered voters than actual live voters. It's a troubling fact that puts our nation's future in peril.
The data come from Judicial Watch's Election Integrity Project. The group looked at data from 2011 to 2015 produced by the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, along with data from the federal Election Assistance Commission.
As reported by the National Review's Deroy Murdock, who did some numbers-crunching of his own, "some 3.5 million more people are registered to vote in the U.S. than are alive among America's adult citizens. Such staggering inaccuracy is an engraved invitation to voter fraud."
Murdock counted Judicial Watch's state-by-state tally and found that 462 U.S. counties had a registration rate exceeding 100% of all eligible voters. That's 3.552 million people, who Murdock calls "ghost voters." And how many people is that? There are 21 states that don't have that many people.
Nor are these tiny, rural counties or places that don't have the wherewithal to police their voter rolls.
Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, for instance, has 11 counties with more registered voters than actual voters. Perhaps not surprisingly ‐ it is deep-Blue State California, after all ‐ 10 of those counties voted heavily for Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... Los Angeles County, whose more than 10 million people make it the nation's most populous county, had 12% more registered voters than live ones, some 707,475 votes. That's a huge number of possible votes in an election.
But, Murdock notes, "California's San Diego County earns the enchilada grande. Its 138% registration translates into 810,966 ghost voters."
State by state, this is an enormous problem that needs to be dealt with seriously. Having so many bogus voters out there is a temptation to voter fraud. In California, where Hillary Clinton racked up a massive majority over Trump, it would have made little difference.
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A 'temptation' to voter fraud? Dems have doing it for decades now.
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IMHO, the electoral system is arguably the most important institution of our way of life. Most all things dangerous to this country come from messing with this, either directly or indirectly.
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Republicans should have taken everyones fears over electoral fraud in 2016 and turned it into a movement getting clean up the voter rolls, voter ID, and paper ballots, etc on the ballots in all 50 states by this November.
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Why they keep pushing the "National Vote" to replace the Electoral College... I remember reading about some of the shenanigans in Spain just before the Spanish Civil War where entire districts voted 100%, *cough*, 110% for a particular party.
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entire districts voted 100%, *cough*, 110% for a particular party.
After the last Presidential election, the idea of a recount to overturn the unpossible result was quite popular. They actually started doing one in Michigan, beginning in reliably Democratic Detroit. Didn't last long, though.
In Michigan, they use paper ballots and optical readers. After voting, the ballots are stored in boxes with the vote tallies and ballot count marked on the outside. When doing a recount, if the actual number of physical ballots in the box doesn't match the number on the outside, that box cannot counted. After doing a few precincts where something like 60% (if memory serves) of the counts didn't match, the whole idea quietly faded away.
[BostonGlobe] Senator Elizabeth Warren has released a DNA test that provides "strong evidence’’ she had a Native American in her family tree dating back 6 to 10 generations, an unprecedented move by one of the top possible contenders for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. That would make her 1/512th Native American. I have more than that. Does she really believe that makes her Native American?
Warren, whose claims to Native American blood have been mocked by President Trump and other Republicans, provided the test results to the Globe on Sunday in an effort to defuse questions about her ancestry that have persisted for years. She planned an elaborate rollout Monday of the results as she aimed for widespread attention.
The analysis of Warren’s DNA was done by Carlos D. Bustamante, a Stanford University professor and expert in the field who won a 2010 MacArthur fellowship, also known as a genius grant, for his work on tracking population migration via DNA analysis. Mine was done by 23&Me.
Warren, whose claims to Native American blood have been mocked by President Trump and other Republicans, provided the test results to the Globe on Sunday in an effort to defuse questions about her ancestry that have persisted for years. She planned an elaborate rollout Monday of the results as she aimed for widespread attention. Her elaborate rollout has 4 flat tires.
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As pointed out yesterday, she likely has a greater percentage of Neanderthal blood, but I don't see her suddenly identifying with that.
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I laugh that the media, which hates Trump, has never pointed out that he's flubbing the joke. She was known as Fauxcahontas but he called her Pocahontas. Can't point that out without going into more detail about the issue I guess so they couldn't fire that shot.
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rjschwarz, they couldn't fire that shot since the corrected joke would still be seen as true. Telling the truth, it seems, hurts them worse than garlic to a Vampire.*
* apologies to vampires offended by the comparison.
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Two problems here: 1) She lied. 2) If we are really all Americans then her ancestry shouldn't make any difference. She's an American and that should be all there is to it. Affirmative Action sux.
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* apologies to vampires offended by the comparison.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Bloomberg] Stormy Daniels's libel lawsuit over a tweet by Donald Trump accusing her of "a total con job" was thrown out by a judge who said the president was engaging in free speech.
Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 
