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To: exDemMom

Why doesn’t Fauci sue RFK for libel?


30 posted on 01/15/2024 9:13:53 AM PST by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: OKSooner

“Why doesn’t Fauci sue RFK for libel?”

Fauci is a “public figure”. Courts have established that public figures have to prove “actual malice”.

Actual malice is “knowledge that their statement was false, or made with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.”

If RFK genuinely believes what he says, which he probably does, he’s not acting out of actual malice. Either way it’s basically impossible for public figures like Fauci to win libel suits.


36 posted on 01/18/2024 3:31:01 PM PST by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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