eric trump threatening to sue O'donnell

[Demovictory9]

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Eric Trump
@EricTrump
This was a reckless attempt to slander our family and smear a great company. Apologies are not enough when the true intent was solely to damage and cause harm. As a company, we will be taking legal action. This unethical behavior has to stop.
@Lawrence

@MSNBC
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Lawrence O'Donnell
@Lawrence
· 6h
Last night I made an error in judgment by reporting an item about the president’s finances that didn’t go through our rigorous verification and standards process. I shouldn’t have reported it and I was wrong to discuss it on the air. I will address the issue on my show tonight.

[JDC]

1. I'd bet this backfires. Dollars to doughnuts.

[RhodeIslandOne]

2. How did he get mommy's phone?

[LuckyCharms]

3. Here's the video of Eric.

[Brother Buzz]

4. This coming from Eric "We have all the funding we need out of Russia" Trump?

[Doodley]

19. Yes, maybe he can explain what that funding is. Oh, I forgot, the Trump's are fighting tooth and

nail to keep that from us.

[dlk]

5. If Trump is Foolish Enough to Sue, Then the Deutsche Bank Documents Would be Part of Discovery

And all would be revealed.

[ReformedGOPer]

22. +1

[aquamarina]

30. Exactly

Please proceed...

[sprinkleeninow]

6. Wait. 'This unethical behavior...'?? You speak to your old man like that?

[bdamomma]

7. They can go to hell

these monsters want to stop medical treatment on children. This is cruel inhumane treatment and a crime.

[Dawson Leery]

8. ...and Obama could have sued hundreds of right wing commentators for claiming he was

not born in America. The consequences of a foreign born President (which he was not) are far more serious than anything O'Donnell said . A foreign born President would not be legitimate.

[LuckyCharms]

12. Yes. Good point. n/t

[Dawson Leery]

14. In any lawsuit, the discovery process would expose the Trump crime family and they know it...

Eric may not understand this but the son and daughter do.

[madaboutharry]

9. Someone needs to explain the legal term

Discovery to this nitwit.

[Pobeka]

37. Yep. Discovery would be a lot of fun, wouldn't it? n/t

[Clash City Rocker]

10. If they were going to sue, they would sue, instead of threatening to do so

If they sue, they would have to prove the accusation is false, and it’s probably true. Regardless, it would require them to disclose some things they probably don’t want to disclose. This is sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[former9thward]

18. That is not the legal standard.

Public figures rarely sue for libel because it is difficult in the U.S. for them to prove defamation no matter what is said. For NBC and McDonnell to immediately respond means that they had nothing to back them up.

[NanceGreggs]

11. G'head, Eric, and sue.

You know you'll have to prove in court that what O'Donnell said is false, and show the documents that disprove it?

But of course you don't know that, because you're even more of an idiot than your father is - and that's sayin' something.

[Glimmer of Hope]

13. Gawd. He is the dumb one.

[lunatica]

15. He's bloviating that famous Trump hot gas.

Other than being malodorous there is nothing there there.

[Newest Reality]

16. Gee, Eric,

your family seems to win the "thou protesteth too loudly" award. Tell Dad, he likes awards and being best.

First off, are you that much of an professional ignoramus to think that your family hasn't already been smeared and even self-slandered, (is that possible) by your pitiful, pungent, pestilent, Patriarch? Your family has already been smeared so far across our collective pavement like a thick wad of dog excrement stuck on Dad's Fascist-colored shoes and the smell itself calls for legal action. And what kind of company can call itself "great" with the long list of product failures it sports, buying its merchandise from China, and illegally profiting off of the highest office in our great country, you weasel in a suit.

And you are right, any apologies from your family will never be enough to rectify the results of your true intents that have done nothing but damage and cause harm to an entire country. Like your Father, you are prone to projection, so look in mirror you petulant little money grubber and say: "This unethical behavior has to stop." Now, go bow before your Pappy, or genuflect, or whatever you do, and set him straight.

Shove it, Eric. Shove it. Put that righteous indignation where it belongs, the same place you have your head stuck in.

[Trenzalore]

17. You won't sue lol

The defense gets discovery and access to all the bank documents.

[BlueStater]

20. Beavis is full of shit.

Suing anybody would reveal extremely unflattering and likely illegal things about his mess of a family. He's not going to do squat.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. Please proceed, Beavis. Or is it Butthead?

The thing about defamation suits is that the defendant gets to conduct discovery. In this case, that's likely to involve demands for the production of loan documents and tax returns - the very things the Trumps have been trying to keep from seeing the light of day.

But although his wheel is spinning, the hamster is dead.

[GoCubsGo]

26. Butt-Head is the gummy one.

There is quite the resemblance between the two.

[mr_lebowski]

31. Yeah but Beavis is the blond and Butthead the Brunette ...

Plus Butthead is the 'brains' of the two (though they're both morons, Beavis is complete idiot).

So in my book, gums aside, Don Jr is Butthead and Eric is Beavis.

JMHO ...

[PRETZEL]

39. "But although his wheel is spinning, the hamster is dead."

Please give me permission to use this, that's a great line,

As to discovery, this would also put Lawrence in a bind also. Wouldn't discovery give Trump the opportunity to make Lawrence give up his source?

And since it's at this point, single source, doesn't that put him in a precarious position?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

40. It depends on whether he's required to reveal his source.

Some jurisdictions grant reporters a limited privilege against being required to reveal a source, but in most of the cases where this has been tested, the government is demanding the disclosure. There are DoJ guidelines to the effect that the government "should have made all reasonable attempts to obtain the information from alternative, non-media sources” before considering issuing a subpoena to a member of the news media. I'm not sure whether this would also apply to a civil case.

[PRETZEL]

41. Thanks, nt

[Retrograde]

23. Ah, so it IS true!

If there were no basis in O'Donnell's statement I doubt the Trumps would be protesting so much.

[Tanuki]

24. This monster skimmed more than a million dollars from donations meant

for pediatric cancer patients, and now has the gall to accuse someone else of "unethical behavior"?

[Hoyt]

25. I'll be contrarian. My bet is the loans weren't co-signed by identifiable oligarchs, mobsters,

whatever. Those folks might have control of trump, but it won't show up on a loan document.

trump knows the loan documents will come out soon enough.

[Dan]

27. I'm laughing because I think that Discovery will be a bitch for the Trump family.

[Blue Owl]

28. Tweedle Dee, Twitter Gums...

n/t

[dchill]

29. "...smear a great company..."

Bring it, Prints Airic! Ever hear of "discovery?"

[Freethinker65]

32. Eric is either a complete idiot or just threatening like Daddy does.

Discovery would entail allowing the records to be seen to prove you had indeed been maligned.
The Trump clan does not want any records released.

[Retrograde]

36. No reason he can't be both (n/t)

[Mersky]

33. I instinctively read his words in Mickey Mouse voice

Thank you, brain, for making that more tolerable.

It's an absurdity that O'Donnell has to apologize to the man who would fall over if not for his two legs: falsity and defamation.

[Cracklin Charlie]

34. Do it!

Let’s see those documents!

Great idea, Eric.

[JI7]

35. Why only Threaten ? DO IT

[librechik]

38. which one of those doofuses told a reporter in 2017 that most Trump money comes from Russia?

Oh, yeah. It was Eric, in a Vanity Fair interview. (google it)

[smirkymonkey]

42. I can't decide which one is the dumber one.

NEWS IN BRIEF

"Trump Boys Frantically Burning Stacks Of Printed-Out Emails To Eliminate Paper Trail"



WASHINGTON—After learning that their father’s associates Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen were guilty of crimes and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation was continuing to expand, Eric and Donald Trump Jr. were reportedly frantically burning stacks of their printed-out emails Wednesday to eliminate their paper trail. “Okay, Eric, I think we melted down all the stuff we wrote from last year so now Mr. Mueller can’t never find it—time to start wrecking all the emails from this year,” said Trump Jr., who, along with his brother, had stayed up all night printing out every single email ever sent or received by either of the boys and setting the stacks of paper ablaze in a plastic garbage can to eliminate any evidence that could be used against them in an investigation. “We gotta type up copies of our texts so we can print them out and burn those, too—you can’t be too careful with the witch hunt. And once we finish burning all the evidence, we have to take pictures of our faces on Instagram and then print out those, too, and burn them so we can delete our identities. Then we have to leave and never come back, okay? We have to go to one of the small dots on a map where they can’t find us.” At press time, the Trump boys were attempting to erase any trace of their deliberate destruction of evidence by using masking tape to secure rocks to the top of the printer and pushing the device into the depths of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool where it would “never, ever be found.”

[EleanorR]

43. 'Well, we don't rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia."

"I said, 'Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks — because of the recession, the Great Recession — have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years,'” the writers told WBUR.

"And this is what he said. He said, 'Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.' I said, 'Really?' And he said, 'Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.’"

Oh Eric, you are a moron.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

44. Not very smart

The grifter family will likely have to release their financial records as part of discovery.

[triron]

45. He is just barking.