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Alan Dershowitz files $300 million defamation suit against CNN
Fox News ^ | September 15 2020 | Yael Halon

Posted on 09/15/2020 11:07:53 PM PDT by knighthawk

Famed attorney and Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz filed a defamation suit against CNN on Tuesday seeking $300 million for what he called a "willful, deliberate, malicious effort to destroy my credibility."

Dershowitz told Fox News that CNN selectively edited a clip of his remarks from the Senate floor during President Trump's impeachment trial where he broke down the illegalities surrounding a "quid pro quo" as a member of the president's defense team.

The Constitutional scholar alleges in the lawsuit that the news outlet propagated a “sea of lies” by re-airing only part of his quote, which he believes was part of a deliberate effort "from the very top" to frame him for claiming “that the President of the United States could commit illegal acts as long as he thought it would help his reelection and that his reelection was in the public interest," The Wrap reported.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alandershowitz; cnn; commienewsnetwork; contraindicated; dershowitz; jeffzucker; oftenwrong; selectiveediting; tds; thedersh; thewrap; treason; zucker
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1 posted on 09/15/2020 11:07:53 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

but ol Dershie will STILL vote democrat.......

stubborn to the end


2 posted on 09/15/2020 11:09:58 PM PDT by Jaysin (Trump canÂ’t be beat, if the Democrats donÂ’t cheat)
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To: knighthawk

3 posted on 09/15/2020 11:18:49 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: knighthawk
The Constitutional scholar alleges in the lawsuit that the news outlet propagated a “sea of lies” by re-airing only part of his quote, which he believes was part of a deliberate effort "from the very top" to frame him for claiming “that the President of the United States could commit illegal acts as long as he thought it would help his reelection and that his reelection was in the public interest,"

Well I hope such an order would come from the Very Top.

If any shenanigans like that was put on the air by a lowly producer on his own, he would have to be very stupid or would have to just want to make trouble for the network deliberately and not care if he ever worked in TV news again.

4 posted on 09/15/2020 11:21:00 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirs)
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To: Jaysin

Are you in at polling Booth with him? :-)

You are likely right but one never knows.

Remember Trump wasn’t always a solid Conservative Republican and at some points he sounded a little bit like a Democrat.

I myself have nodded and smiled during interviews in Manhattan when some left-wing garbage was spouted. It’s funny how needing a roof and food will do that to you :)

Then once I was secure enough in my job I would let my real views go.

Maybe Alan isn’t quite there yet.

But common sense says his actions too many times do not make him seem like a solid Democrat


5 posted on 09/15/2020 11:24:31 PM PDT by dp0622 (I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABO UT THE COVID GODFATHER, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
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To: Jaysin

Think so ?
Dershowitz may have had or still have lifelong Leftist views, but at some point there may be an awakening once the scorpion stings you.

He seems intellectually honest, so I don’t/can’t see him going with the with an obvious dementia Biden presidency.

(of course I could be wrong)


6 posted on 09/16/2020 12:11:48 AM PDT by A strike (If you die we will report it as Covid unless you prove otherwise.)
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To: knighthawk

CNN: Welcome to West Covington, Part DEUX!


7 posted on 09/16/2020 12:45:48 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: A strike

I HOPE he’ll pull the lever for Trump if he’s honest enough.

I have a cousin in LA who works on the very fringes of the entertainment industry (i.e. hollywood)
She posts a lot on FB and for the most part is on the right side of the political coin, but she always has to make a point in her arguments “and I’m a democrat”
I wonder if she has to through that in as an insurance clause.......because deep down she ain’t no modern day democrat.


8 posted on 09/16/2020 1:15:19 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump canÂ’t be beat, if the Democrats donÂ’t cheat)
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To: Jaysin

Has to do with abortion.


9 posted on 09/16/2020 1:20:05 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around. God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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but ol Dershie will STILL vote democrat.......

I don't know... Sometimes a conservative is just a democrat that's been mugged.

10 posted on 09/16/2020 1:43:29 AM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: Bullish

in 2020 we can update that statement to be

a republican is a democrat who hasn’t been cancelled yet

a republican is a democrat who hasn’t been doxxed yet

a republican is a democrat who hasn’t been looted yet


11 posted on 09/16/2020 1:51:20 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump canÂ’t be beat, if the Democrats donÂ’t cheat)
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To: knighthawk

I trust he wins but as others have written in this thread, the useful idiot will still vote for democrats.

JoMa


12 posted on 09/16/2020 1:53:52 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: knighthawk

Wheres the he was a passenger on the” lolita express” lawsuit?


13 posted on 09/16/2020 2:39:23 AM PDT by Ikeon (God is not a liberal)
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To: knighthawk

cnn needs to be put out of business.


14 posted on 09/16/2020 2:43:37 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: Jaysin

BINGO!!! Just another Jew Stuck on STUPID, just like most blacks......go figure.


15 posted on 09/16/2020 3:17:46 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: knighthawk

Lin Wood?


16 posted on 09/16/2020 3:38:08 AM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: I want the USA back

Amen to that one


17 posted on 09/16/2020 3:58:14 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: knighthawk

Deny everything, make counter-accusations


18 posted on 09/16/2020 4:31:03 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: knighthawk

To his credit Alan Dershowitz did speak in support of President Trump at the impeachment hearing.


19 posted on 09/16/2020 10:07:40 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: A strike

He’s a liberal, not a leftist.


20 posted on 09/16/2020 12:15:14 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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