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Portland: Mayor besieged in his condo
after refusing Trump assistance
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-Land of the Free
Sarah Palin can sue New York Times for defamation: court ruling
[Twitter-Wretchard]

A federal judge on Friday rejected the New York Times’ bid to dismiss Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit over an editorial she said wrongly linked her to a 2011 mass shooting.

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan said there was “sufficient evidence to allow a rational finder of fact to find actual malice by clear and convincing evidence.”
Ouch.
Posted by: 3dc || 08/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Get the same lawyer the Sandman kid used.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 08/29/2020 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  #FightBack

Lin Wood's org
Posted by: Chunky Lover of the Chinese1296 || 08/29/2020 0:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Somewhere, Ariel Sharon has a chuckle.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/29/2020 4:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Good. Now give it to them, nice and hard.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/29/2020 4:59 Comments || Top||

#5  "They have insurance". Right? Huffington Post supports looting reparations.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/29/2020 10:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Times v. Sullivan revisited? That would kick serious ass.
Posted by: Raj || 08/29/2020 10:28 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Yevgeny Vindman, brother of impeachment witness, files whistleblower complaint
It’s the other LTC Sausage’s turn now.
[IsraelTimes] Military officer, whose twin testified in Trump’s trial, says he was pressured out of job in retaliation for allegations against National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien.

Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, whose twin brother testified in US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s impeachment trial, has filed a whistleblower complaint claiming that he was fired in retaliation for allegations of ethical and legal wrongdoing against Robert O’Brien, the national security adviser.

The 32-page complaint filed last week also provides new details about the year leading up to Trump’s impeachment, The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

reported.

Vindman, who is still an active-duty officer, was asked to leave his job as a White House lawyer in February on the same day that Trump removed his brother, Alexander, from his position as an expert on US policy in Ukraine. Both Vindmans were reassigned to the Army.

Vindman had attended the impeachment trial in support of his brother.

He reported legal and ethical concerns about O’Brien and Alex Gray, the National Security Council chief of staff, to his superiors six times between July 2019 and this February. The complaint asserts that the reports meet the criteria for protection from reprisal.

Vindman also joined his brother in raising concerns to White House lawyers about Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president in which Trump pressured Volodymyr Zelensky to conduct an investigation against political rival Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant...
According to the complaint, Vindman was gradually relieved of responsibilities, not invited to meetings with O’Brien and other security officials, and given a poor performance review before being removed from his White House position.

The complaint calls for an investigation of the alleged reprisal and requests a response by September 1.

Alexander Vindman retired from the US Army in July, saying he did not feel that he could advance due to political retaliation from the president and his supporters.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Leaker? Trying to preemptively prevent being prosecuted?
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 08/29/2020 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  You can take Russians of the country, BUTT,
you can't take the country out of Russians.
This is a hint that people like the Vindmans might hold a perverted allegiance even though they may whistle the "Star-Spangled Banner" tune.
Posted by: boomerc || 08/29/2020 4:08 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Avoid nasty betrayals and shocking disappointments. Never trust an Arab. Never trust a Russian.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2020 7:01 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 My feelings are hurt, Besoeker.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 08/29/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Nothing personal, it's just.......
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2020 10:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Sour grapes if I ever heard it - his case at this point seems pretty weak. It's just another log on the fire of Democrats' permanent legal harassment campaign against their opponents.
Posted by: Raj || 08/29/2020 14:03 Comments || Top||

#7  This part sticks out a bit:

Alexander Vindman retired from the US Army in July, saying he did not feel that he could advance due to political retaliation from the president and his supporters.

Maybe I'm reading way too into it or something, but do you detect a whiff of entitlement with that statement?
Posted by: Raj || 08/29/2020 14:07 Comments || Top||

#8  Maybe first there should be a serious investigation of the two sausages, to make sure they aren't foreign agents or the like. So account for every second of their existence and if any laws were broken, well, that will just be too bad. Oh and if they refuse to turn over ALL records, assign them both to Gitmo, to clean toilets.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/29/2020 20:07 Comments || Top||

#9  Clowns in America?
Posted by: Clem || 08/29/2020 20:13 Comments || Top||



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