Two telling clues reveal these suits to be frivolous. First, all three lawsuits target opinion pieces—not news reports asserting factual claims. While in theory an opinion piece could meet the Supreme Court’s high bar for defamation of a public figure, in practice this is very hard to imagine. Second, the statements alleged to be defamatory […]
“He’s paying our money to himself,” the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold told “Trump, Inc.” “There must be so much more we haven’t seen.” .article-header Image: President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. The Secret Service has paid up to $650 per night to stay at the hotel. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Stay up to […]
In his first public appearance since the impeachment trial, the president’s former national security adviser said he was fighting efforts to suppress his unpublished book. John R. Bolton repeatedly ducked questions related to Ukraine or impeachment during an appearance at Duke University on Monday.Credit…Logan Cyrus/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images DURHAM, N.C. — John R. Bolton, […]
The Air Force veteran is serving more than five years in prison for sending a classified report to a news website while she was working as a National Security Agency contractor. Reality Winner, the former Air Force linguist and intelligence contractor who pleaded guilty to leaking a government report on Russian hacking, filed a clemency […]