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Trump Turns to Ghislaine Maxwell in Wall Street Journal Defamation Fight (6/4/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. Donald Trump has reignited his fight with the
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  Wall Street Journal over the claims about the Epstein birthday card. However,
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  this time around, Donald Trump has added the fact that
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  Glayne Maxwell said that Donald Trump had nothing to do
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  with Jeffrey Epstein whatsoever and that she has no recollection whatsoever. Oh,
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  Donald Trump ever adding anything to that book. And for
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  all the people out there that think this isn't a
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  cover up, well, how do you explain this? Glainne Maxwell
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  gets favorable treatment by the administration, and then a few
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  months later, the administration is using Glaine Maxwell as an
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  anchor point for a lawsuit that they filed against the
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  Wall Street Journal. Oh yeah, nothing shady going on here.
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  Glainne Maxwell's not being hooked up. Do you think she'd
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  say the same thing if she was still in Tallahassee.
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  We won't know, right, We have no idea. Because she
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  was moved. She was moved to a place she should
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  have never been moved to. And I think it's obvious
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  now why that move occurred. Quid pro quo, right, help
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  me and I'll help you. And as far as Glene
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  Maxwell goes as a witness. Good luck. You're talking about
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  somebody who is one of the biggest notorious liars, maybe
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  in history. And I'm only half kidding when I say
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  that just about every word that comes out of this
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  lady's mouth is a lie, whether it's about Epstein or
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  anything else. And when it comes to Donald Trump and
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  his relationship with Jeffrey Ebstein in the past, are we
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  really gonna let Glaine Maxwell be the arbiter of truth?
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  I mean, have we really fallen that far that a
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  convicted child molester is the witness that the president of
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  the United States is relying on? I guess we have.
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  Today's article is from okay dot com and the headline
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  Donald Trump brings Glaine Maxwell into revie ten billion dollar
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  Wall Street Journal lawsuit over the Epstein letter. And you
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  know what's so funny about this? If it's a forgery,
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  if it's not real, then who forged it? How come
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  there is no gigantic FBI investigation into that. You'll file
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  a lawsuit, but you won't have the FBI investigate. Why not?
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  Are you scared of what they would find? Mister President?
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  I bet you are, because in my opinion that note's real. Now,
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  of course that note doesn't you know, say that Donald
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  Trump is guilty of taking part in any kind of abuse.
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  But it shows you how much he lies when it
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  comes to Jeffrey Epstein and the relationship they had. And
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  if you think covering something up is no big deal,
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  why don't you ask Nixon? And the author of this
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  article is okay? Staff President Donald Trump is reopening one
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  of the highest profile media battles, refiling a ten billion
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  dollar lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting
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  of an alleged birthday letter sent to Jeffrey Epstein. And look,
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  what's he so concerned about? Just a letter, right, It's
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  all a big hoax. Epstein's just a nothing burger. He
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  never trafficked anybody to anybody, and he's just a lone predator.
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  So what are you so worried about, Donald Trump? Could
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  it be that all of that is bs and that
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  Donald Trump has a lot more skin in the game
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  than he ever let on, Because if the relationship was
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  nothing and there was nothing to worry about, then he
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  shouldn't be worried. But yet here we are with a
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  ten billion dollar lawsuit. The amended complaint comes after a
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  federal judge dismissed Trump's first lawsuit in April, finding that
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  the team had not sufficiently argued actual malice, the legal
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  standard public officials must meet in a defamation case. Well,
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  how is it malice? If it's real, we could get
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  to the bottom of this real quick. Have the FBI
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  run a test and see if it's real or not.
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  They want to run tests on everything else, right, Check
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  this one's handwriting, Check that one's handwriting. But now, Donald Trump,
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  I wonder why the lawsuit stems from a journal article
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  about a two thousand and three birthday album compiled but
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  for Epstein by Glenn Maxwell. The article described a lewd
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  letter allegedly bearing Trump's signature, which Trump has denied writing.
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  And in my opinion, that's a lie, and it's also
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  part of the cover up. I think Donald Trump is
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  so worried about being embarrassed that he's willing to go
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  the extra mile to cover this shit up. And a
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  whole lot of that has to do with his narcissism.
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  The guy just can't ever take an l It's always
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  somebody else's fault, it's always the other guy, when in
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  reality he should probably take a look in the mirror.
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  The House Overside Committee later released a letter in September
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  after receiving it from Epstein's estate. Trump's new lawsuit continues
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  to claim that no authentic letter or drawing exists, which
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  is bananas to think about. What do you mean no
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  authentic letter exists. They've turned it over to Congress, so
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  you're saying it's a forgery. And if it's a forgery,
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  why isn't the FBI investigating? I would think that that
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  would be a gigantic problem. Somebody is trying to frame
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  the president of the United States and there's not a
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  gigantic investigation into that and who's behind it. It's all suspect.
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  Just like everything else that Donald Trump has said about
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  his time with Epstein. Trump's legal team is again seeking
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  ten billion, though the basis for that figure remains unclear. Intimidation,
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  that's what it's all about, this whole entire thing, just
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  like going after Massey, just like going after Marjorie Taylor Green,
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  Lauren Bobert, and Nancy Mace. It's all about intimidating people
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  to dance to his tune. And I just don't dig it.
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  I hate bullies and that's all this man does. He
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  just bullies people into going along with his nonsense, and
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  at some point you would hope that somebody would stay
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  up and say enough is enough. But I guess we're
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  not at that point yet. In the revised filing, Trump's
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  lawyers cite Maxwell's twenty twenty five interview with then Deputy
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  Attorney General Todd Blanche, now acting Attorney General. During a
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  sit down, Maxwell said she didn't remember Trump's submitting a letter,
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  card or note for Epstein's birthday album. Oh well, that
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  settles it. Glenn Maxwell has spoken up the arbiter of truth.
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  Let's just rely on what she says. Never mind that
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  there's an actual letter that was turned over to Congress
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  that looks a whole lot like Donald Trump's signature. So
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  did the estate forge that? Did somebody creep in there
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  at night and forge that letter when the estate was
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  sleeping and they knew that it was just going to
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  become a topic of importance. None of it makes sense.
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  And the whole lawsuit that's being filed by Donald Trump
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  is just reactive. That's it, reacting to the situation and
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  trying to control the narrative while at the same time
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  showing Republicans and anybody else that might speak up that
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  it's not a good idea, and if you're looking for
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  a reason, why, here are ten billion of them. Indeed,
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  Maxwell has stated subject to penalty of perjury for lying
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  to a federal officer that she did not remember President
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  Trump submitting a letter for Epstein's fiftieth birthday. The lawsuit states,
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  can you imagine being the judge and getting this argument,
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  I would laugh myself right out of the chamber, and
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  I would also threaten Trump's lawyers with Rule eleven sanctions.
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  This is ridiculous. The whole point of this lawsuit is
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  to try and kill the conversation. The timing could complicate
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  that argument. The Journal article was published before Maxwell's interview
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  with Blanche took place. The original story also said Maxwell
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  did not respond to a prison interview request. So look,
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  this isn't gonna work. I'm telling you right now, the
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  judge is not going to buy this. And if that's
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  all they have, they have nothing. So I'm really interested
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  to see how this all plays out, because right now,
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  as it stands, Team Trump has not a to move forward.
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  Trump must show WSJ its publisher Dal Jones and News
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  Corp Rupert Murdoch and reporter Kadija Saftar and Joe Palazzolo
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  knowingly published false information or acted with reckless disregard for
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  the truth. Judge Darren P. Gells previously found there was
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  significant evidence the journal had tried to determine whether the
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  letter was genuine. He wrote that Trump's denial alone did
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  not prove the paper acted with serious doubts. And that's
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  a fact. Trump panicked, That's what happened. He saw this
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  lawsuit come in, knew that he was going to be
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  pointed to as somebody in Epstein's inner circle, and he panicked,
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  and he did what every rich person does when they're
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  trying to kill the conversation. Filed the lawsuit. The amended
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  complaint claims that Murdoch told Trump, I'll handle it after
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  Trump called him to deny the story. Trump's lawyers argue
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  he reasonably understood that to me, and Murdoch believed them,
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  and that the article would not be published. Oh that's okay, though, right.
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  Let me just reach out to the boss of the
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  newspaper and press them. Is that really what we want
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  to happen. I don't want to hear shit when the
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  next president gets elected. If he's from the quote unquote
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  other team and he does the same thing, then it's
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  all about precedent. And if you're not going to call
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  it out now, you can't call it out then, and
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  vice versa, because for me, I don't care about your
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  political teams. In fact, those two political teams are the
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  reason we're in the position that we're in. Way too
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  many people have chosen party over country, and you see
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  it in every single argument, every debate, and every gigantic
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  issue that comes onto the table. But there's no way
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  anyone can tell me that they feel comfortable with the
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  president reaching out like that, trying to kill us. It
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  is completely unacceptable and I don't care what president does it.
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  The case adds to Trump's ongoing legal campaign against major
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  media companies. He previously secured settlements from CBS and ABC News,
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  while lawsuits against The New York Times and BBC remain pending. Well, look,
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  if you're talking bullshit and you're actually defaming people, that's different.
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  But I don't believe that he was defamed, at least
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  not by the Wall Street Journal. For now. The refiled
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  Journal lawsuit turns on a narrow but difficult question whether
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  Trump's team can prove the paper across the line from
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  aggressive reporting into actual malice, and that's going to be
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  a tough sell. Are they going to be able to
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  do it? I have my doubts, and the major doubt
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  I have is that the letter was forged in the
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  first place. I think it's real. And if the letter
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  is real, then that's a wrap for Trump's whole entire argument.
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  And if I was a betting man, I would bet
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  that that's what occurs. But like with everything else, we'll
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  keep an eye on it, and when we have some developments,
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  we'll get them added to the catalog. All the information
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  that goes with this episode can be found in the
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