The lawyer that killed Gawker is now part of Trump's Stormy legal team

[DemocratSinceBirth]

A team of lawyers representing President Trump requested on Friday that a suit filed by an attorney representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels be moved from state court to federal court in California. Included in the group, in addition to long-time counsel Michael Cohen, is Charles Harder, best-known for representing Hulk Hogan in a case that resulted in the bankruptcy of news outlet Gawker. Harder has also briefly represented Harvey Weinstein and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner in recent instances.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/charles-harder-representing-trump-in-stormy-daniels-case

The porno president is going to the mattresses.

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[Siwsan]

1. Given trump*'s reputation, it would be prudent for him to have collected a massive retainer

And it doesn't matter how skilled the lawyer is, if his client doesn't listen to the advice.

[RKP5637]

2. Correction: The porno president is going to the WET mattresses. n/t

[NCTraveler]

3. The porno president is going to the mattresses.

[poboy2]

4. "Don't tell me the cases you've won. Tell me who you've beaten."

-reply from lawyer for S. Daniels on AM Joy this morning

[C_U_L8R]

5. No doubt via Peter Thiel

Yet another narcissistic misanthrope

[floppyboo]

6. Guess this is part of the reason his alias is on record now

That's how that v. Gawker lawyer defended Hulk Hogan. Precedent, and he set it.

from https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/business/media/hulk-hogan-v-gawker-a-guide-to-the-trial-for-the-perplexed.html

Mr. Bollea’s lawyers have said that the video was not newsworthy, that its publication caused him “emotional stress and harm” and that Gawker posted it only for financial gain. Moreover, Mr. Bollea argues that Hulk Hogan, the character, made all those sexual boasts, not Mr. Bollea himself. And that Mr. Hogan, the character, is given to exaggeration and falsehood, which explains any contradictory statements he made about the tape and his knowledge of it. Mr. Hogan, he agrees, does not have much privacy left to violate. But Mr. Bollea does.
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from wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollea_v._Gawker

Trial and verdict

The six-person jury consisted of four women and two men.[19] The trial lasted two weeks.[20] During the trial, Gawker argued that Bollea made his sex life a public matter, although on cross-examination, when asked by Bollea's lawyer whether a depiction of his genitalia had any "news value," former Gawker editor AJ Daulerio responded "no".[21] Bollea said that comments made in interviews were done in his professional wrestling character, an on-air persona different than his own.[22] The court was shown a taped deposition where Daulerio said that he would consider a celebrity sex tape non-newsworthy if the subject was under the age of four.[23] Daulerio later told the court he was being flippant in his response.[24]

On March 18, 2016, the jury delivered a verdict in favor of Bollea. The jury awarded him $115 million in compensatory damages, which included $60 million for emotional distress. The jury awarded Bollea an additional $25 million in punitive damages on March 21.[8]

Reactions to the verdict ranged from those supporting it and decrying voyeuristic publications, to those describing it as of limited scope which doesn't damage free speech, to those describing the verdict and the large judgment as having a deeply chilling effect on journalism when courts can decide newsworthiness.[25][26][27]

[Kirk Lover]

10. Are they going for that trashbag is playing a 'character'?

[highplainsdem]

7. Harder is also the lawyer who FAILED to stop the publication of Fire and Fury

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/attorneys-fire-fury-publisher-push-back-trump-teams/story?id=52217633

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. He has a porno name too. Imagine if his first name was Richard.

[dalton99a]

9. +1