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Rob @billsbackerboston.bsky.social

Yet this is ok. Got it! www.newsweek.com/trump-abc-ne...

sep 2, 2025, 5:33 pm • 1 0

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Timothy Schwarzauer @schwatd.bsky.social

Again, you're confusing your own morality for the law. If you weren't so attached to your own bigotry, you might actually learn something about the law.

sep 2, 2025, 5:35 pm • 1 0 • view
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Enrique Bedlam @enriquebedlam.bsky.social

Yup. And that demand has no legal basis. It was a settlement. The only thing the court found is that it was improper to dismiss because it could be potentially proven ABC had defamed him.

sep 2, 2025, 5:35 pm • 9 0 • view
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Rob @billsbackerboston.bsky.social

Donna has every right to go after Trump

sep 2, 2025, 5:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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Timothy Schwarzauer @schwatd.bsky.social

No, friend. She would just end up owing money. It's the same reason why Trump can't sue me for saying he is a moron and should be in prison.

sep 2, 2025, 5:37 pm • 11 0 • view
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Timothy Schwarzauer @schwatd.bsky.social

Why do you want to give Trump the power to sue people who say he is an idiot?

sep 2, 2025, 5:39 pm • 8 0 • view
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Rob @billsbackerboston.bsky.social

He already does!! Where have you been!

sep 2, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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Timothy Schwarzauer @schwatd.bsky.social

Can you cite the case where Trump succeeded in suing someone for calling him dumb? Please be specific in your citation.

sep 2, 2025, 5:41 pm • 4 0 • view
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Timothy Schwarzauer @schwatd.bsky.social

Anything here?

sep 2, 2025, 6:06 pm • 2 0 • view
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Enrique Bedlam @enriquebedlam.bsky.social

So when Colbert called Trump "Just plain dumb" Trump sued for defamation?

sep 2, 2025, 5:43 pm • 9 0 • view
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Rob @billsbackerboston.bsky.social

He freakin sued CBS for billions! And got 16 million.

sep 2, 2025, 5:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Timothy Schwarzauer @schwatd.bsky.social

What's the case number and which specific cause of action was over being called "dumb?"

sep 2, 2025, 6:08 pm • 2 0 • view
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Enrique Bedlam @enriquebedlam.bsky.social

Yes. Because they settled to bribe him. So unless you think Trump has a good reason to wanna Bribe Donna Brazile, Cliffords v Trump. Where Trump got $300,000.

sep 2, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
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Rob @billsbackerboston.bsky.social

Probably already has!

sep 2, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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Timothy Schwarzauer @schwatd.bsky.social

He has not. Whether or not you consider someone "dumb" is purely dependent on your own personal views and definition of what you consider to be "dumb." As such, it can't be proven false and isn't actionable in a US Court.

sep 2, 2025, 6:15 pm • 12 0 • view
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Robert Szasz 𓅆 @rszasz.saxonco.com

They called him dumb, when clearly he can't stop blabbering, and therefore isn't a literal pile of feces.

sep 2, 2025, 8:47 pm • 2 0 • view
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Rob @billsbackerboston.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2024/01...

sep 2, 2025, 6:37 pm • 1 0 • view
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Timothy Schwarzauer @schwatd.bsky.social

No part of that case was about calling someone dumb, either. Would you like to try again?

sep 2, 2025, 7:01 pm • 9 0 • view
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Rob @billsbackerboston.bsky.social

He is the president of the United States!! And has a huge platform. Sorry, you are wrong about this.

sep 2, 2025, 6:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Timothy Schwarzauer @schwatd.bsky.social

Reach isn't an element of defamation.

sep 2, 2025, 7:03 pm • 2 0 • view
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Rob the Blue Mage @thebluemage.bsky.social

You're making an ethical argument rather than a legal argument. He *should* not say things like that; there is no legal mechanism to prevent him from doing so.

sep 2, 2025, 6:18 pm • 4 0 • view
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Enrique Bedlam @enriquebedlam.bsky.social

Ironically that makes it harder for him to have defamed her because then you have sovereign immunity and Westfall to contend with. But you aren't ready for that stuff yet.

sep 2, 2025, 6:20 pm • 5 0 • view
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Enrique Bedlam @enriquebedlam.bsky.social

He has not. We would be able to see it if he did. But he has not.

sep 2, 2025, 5:49 pm • 3 0 • view
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Rob @billsbackerboston.bsky.social

www.axios.com/2025/03/06/c...

sep 2, 2025, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Timothy Schwarzauer @schwatd.bsky.social

Nothing in the lawsuit was over being called dumb. Would you like to try again?

sep 2, 2025, 6:07 pm • 3 0 • view
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Enrique Bedlam @enriquebedlam.bsky.social

Which was not ruled on before Paramount decided to bribe trump.

sep 2, 2025, 5:53 pm • 2 0 • view
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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social

She has every right to go after you or me too. You can always file a suit. There just wouldn't be any point in doing it

sep 2, 2025, 5:44 pm • 3 0 • view
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Rob @billsbackerboston.bsky.social

Absolutely! If I have personal-distress or lose my job? Yes

sep 2, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social

I said she has every right to *go after you,* Rob, not that you have every right to sue. She has the same right to sue you that she does to sue Trump. She could sue either of you if she wants, but neither of you have defamed her, so what would be the point?

sep 2, 2025, 5:54 pm • 2 0 • view
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Rob @billsbackerboston.bsky.social

This is getting no where. Dude, he slandered her and asked for her firing. She has every right to sue him. End of story.

sep 2, 2025, 5:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Timothy Schwarzauer @schwatd.bsky.social

He didn't. This isn't slander under US law.

sep 2, 2025, 6:06 pm • 3 0 • view
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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social

"every right to sue" is a meaningless phrase. That's the point I'm making to you. She has the right to sue you or me to. Having the right to sue someone doesn't mean that you actually have a valid case.

sep 2, 2025, 6:37 pm • 1 0 • view
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Enrique Bedlam @enriquebedlam.bsky.social

He didn't slander her, and if she sued it will go for her like it did for Stormy Daniels, with her owing Trump money The day you want to stop being like maga and understand why things work the way they do, let us know.

sep 2, 2025, 6:04 pm • 2 0 • view
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Rob @billsbackerboston.bsky.social

The freakin PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA just called a person dumb on a national platform and called for her firing. If that’s not slander, I don’t know what is.

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sep 2, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Enrique Bedlam @enriquebedlam.bsky.social

That's right You don't know what is. Statements of opinion can never be slander unless they are based on undisclosed facts. No matter who says them.

sep 2, 2025, 6:11 pm • 2 0 • view
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Rob @billsbackerboston.bsky.social

What part of reputation are you not understanding? And you wonder why Florida is such a backward state

sep 2, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Enrique Bedlam @enriquebedlam.bsky.social

Nope. You have just as much right to sue her for being Donna Brazile. And your case would go as well as the one you want her to file.

sep 2, 2025, 5:50 pm • 3 0 • view
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Rob @billsbackerboston.bsky.social

I don’t have a bully pulpit that reaches 100’s of millions of people or the president of the United States. Sorry dude, you are wrong. Donna has every right to go after Trump. You may not like it, but she has the liberty to do so.

sep 2, 2025, 5:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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Timothy Schwarzauer @schwatd.bsky.social

Not a relevant factor.

sep 2, 2025, 6:06 pm • 2 0 • view
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Enrique Bedlam @enriquebedlam.bsky.social

Again. Clifford v Trump or Trump V Clinton et all for how that would go.

sep 2, 2025, 5:38 pm • 1 0 • view