Trump has sent a cease and desist letter over this ad.

[Arkansas Granny]

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Sahil Kapur
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@sahilkapur
The Trump campaign just released a cease and desist letter demanding that TV stations immediately pull this ad. https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/2017/web/hero_images/Redacted_PUSA_Letter.pdf …

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Priorities USA
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@prioritiesUSA
Trump refused to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously, now he won’t take responsibility as his administration has been totally unprepared for this crisis.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Why not , they are blocking Bolton book, they might as well end the freedom of the

press for good.

freedom of speech

[madaboutharry]

2. Trump is allergic to the truth.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. The First Amendment says Trump can fuck right off.

[Norbert]

4. The truth hurts

[JDC]

5. I'm going to send them a Continue and Move Forward letter

dotard doesn't want the cult to remember or be reminded of his lies and continual misstatements.

[smb]

6. He Sent A "Cease And Desist" Letter? Send Him A "Fuck You" Letter! nt

[MurrayDelph]

31. How about

sending a "decease from coprophagia" letter?

[Brother Buzz]

7. So, like, we're not allowed to directly quote Trump?

Me thinks this cease and desist shit will be a non-starter when a judge examines it, but I could been horribly wrong.

[MyOwnPeace]

27. At this point.......

we don't even know which judge we can trust anymore!

I'd like to be like a naive child and believe that the "law" will survive - and save us all.

[Brother Buzz]

40. I guess it was just a quaint notion we naïvely hung our hat on a million years ago

Shit is getting real.

[Flaleftist]

8. How dare Democrats use his own words against him!

[stillcool]

9. he's really just asking for more...

[gratuitous]

10. If the kitchen's too hot, you thin-skinned little man

The door is that-a-way.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. "the Democrat's politicization"? How embarrassing that he can't even find a literate lawyer

to act for him. Anyone with a decent reputation must be avoiding him like, well, the coronavirus.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

28. Well, must've been just one Democrat.

[misanthrope]

12. He's a public figure

Good luck with that, Donnie Two Scoops. The easiest way to solve it is to resign.

[Demovictory9]

13. its his own words

[smirkymonkey]

14. Pretty powerful.

Am I the only person that gets unduly upset over the right-winger comments on twitter. They just enrage me and bother me to an extreme degree. I know I should ignore them, but I can't help but be affected by such stupidity and hatred.

Are these all real people or just Russian bots? It just distresses me beyond belief. Maybe I should just take a break from Twitter comments for a while because I really have a hard time with these people. Also, wondering why nobody ever strikes back? Is that because they are just bots? Just wondering.

[MyOwnPeace]

32. Smirky,

you are not the only one that gets unduly upset, trust me!
What bothers me most is to think that there are actually such ignorant, mean, hateful people out there - and we have to live with them - and they vote!
We have to hang together - or we hang alone.

[smirkymonkey]

33. Thanks MOP!

Sometimes I just feel like I am losing my mind with these people. I can't understand them. They are just so awful, I have a hard time believing that they are real. Take care!

[drmeow]

15. Susan B. Anthony List v. Ohio Elections Commission

And this one isn't even lies!

[ooky]

16. Trump desperately wants the country to forget all of his early remarks

about the Coronavirus.

But we aren't going to let the country forget.

Not only would I keep running that ad, for which his argument is ridiculous (as is usual in the case in any legal action he initiates), but I would run another ad with the entirety of the statement he repeated in his cease and desist letter, to show that in entirety it does not change the context at all.

If he dislikes this one, he 's really going to hate the ads in which he suggests its okay for old people to die in order to "save the American economy".

[wnylib]

43. President Death, leader of the Genocide of People party.

[ooky]

46. Exactly.

I've just taken to calling them the Nazi party. Fascism, genocide = naziism.

[wnylib]

48. I started a thread on this a little

while ago on Donny Death's grand show of resurrecting the economy on Easter. On there I said he has also resurrected Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin.

[cilla4progress]

52. Also

christofascists

[procon]

17. LOL! Yeah, I can understand why Trump would want to

bury his own incriminating remarks. Since those are his own words, delivered to the media and memorialized forever on internet video clips, the court should laugh in Trump's face, fine him for filing a frivolous lawsuit, and order him to pay the defendant's costs

[colsohlibgal]

18. Not Sure How He Wins This

Nothing untrue or misleading, it is his own dumb misguided remarks.

The man has indirectly killed with his remarks.

He can, and likely will if there is such a place, go to Hell.

[spanone]

19. Is he claiming that's not him in those videos?

whatever you do, don't believe your eyes and your ears

[Wounded Bear]

20. Forward to Susan Collins...

and send a note back to Trump saying, "Your concerns are duly noted."

[PA Democrat]

21. Can we send Trump a cease and desist letter demanding he stop

his daily free lie-filled campaign ads disguised as Coronavirus task force press conferences?

[djacq]

22. Couldn't resist;

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[Grokenstein]

23. Multiple groups should create their own variant of the ad and air it in every state.

Have fun blockin' 'em all, Corpulente.

[Submariner]

24. Cue Alan Dershowitz for a lame it's okay if Trump crushes the 1st Amendment excuse

[MissB]

25. He really is trying to run on his response to this!

[sheshe2]

26. Truth hurts.

[Joinfortmill]

29. Great ad

[Submariner]

30. Run it on FACEBOOK where Zuckerberg said political ads won't be censored?

[Funtatlaguy]

34. Run it on every conservative media outlet all day long.

[keithbvadu2]

35. So, sue! Discovery is where Trump lies under oath.

So, sue! Discovery is where Trump lies under oath.

[SunSeeker]

36. Great ad. Fuck him, it's TRUE. It's HIS OWN WORDS. nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

37. First of all, whoever wrote that letter needs to learn the correct use of the apostrophe.

Let's see:

Alex W. Cannon, Esq.
Special Counsel
Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.

Here's another link if the first one didn't work.

Trump campaign threatens legal action over liberal super PAC ad
BY JONATHAN EASLEY - 03/25/20 05:54 PM EDT
President Trump’s reelection campaign is threatening legal action against television stations in key battleground states if they continue airing an ad cut by the liberal super PAC Priorities USA alleging that the president called the coronavirus a “hoax.”

Alex Cannon, the legal counsel for Trump’s reelection campaign, sent a letter to television stations in key battleground states where the ad is running demanding they “cease and desist” from airing the ad if they want to “avoid costly and time consuming litigation.”

“Given the foregoing, should you fail to immediately cease broadcasting PUSA’s ad ‘Exponential Threat’, Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. will have no choice but to pursue all legal remedies available to it in law and in equity” the letter states. “We will not stand idly by and allow you to broadcast false, deceptive, and misleading information concerning President’s Trump’s healthcare positions without consequence.”

Priorities USA is putting $6 million behind the ad, which is running on television stations in Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The ad, which is titled “Exponential Threat,” splices together different audio clips of Trump downplaying the virus over a graphic showing the number of cases on the rise.

"The coronavirus, this is their new hoax,” Trump says in the ad. “We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China. One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear. When you have 15 people and within a couple of days is gonna be down to close to zero. We really think we've done a great job in keeping it down to a minimum. I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand. No, I don't take responsibility."

However, fact-checkers at The Washington Post, Snopes, Politifact and FactCheck.org have said it’s wrong to claim that Trump called the virus a hoax.

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[Haggis for Breakfast]

49. This is nothing but the time-honored "smoke and mirrors" here.

EVERYONE knows that that is exactly what he said.

Trying to squelch the ad is a fool's errand. Why don't they get that ?

[smb]

55. By Definition

Trying to squelch the ad is a fool's errand.

Well, technically, any activity undertaken on behalf of il Doofus is a fool's errand.

[yonder]

38. Powerful ad, using his own words. The upward increasing arc is especially effective.

[Yavin4]

39. Hey DU! Stop it! Trump's cease and desist letter is sorely needed during these times.

You can print it out a thousand times and use it as toilet paper.

[BobTheSubgenius]

41. Ahhhh, nice. The time-honoured SLAPP suit.

Fuck those guys. Especially that guy.

[Brainfodder]

42. Bully tactics... just made the ad MORE famous instead ofc.

[spanone]

44. womp womp

[MrModerate]

45. What a waste of billable hours. n/t

[C Moon]

47. Here's a YouTube version is you want to share the fun with YouTube...

[scarletwoman]

50. I don't see how the Trump campaign has a leg to stand on here.

I read the lawyer's letter - and it's his re-election campaign lawyer, not a White House lawyer - and the entire complaint is predicated on notion that the Priorities USA ad is implying that Trump called the Coronavirus "a hoax."

But, in fact, the ad doesn't do that. Both the voiceover of Trump making the statement, and the words appearing on the screen in sync with the voiceover, say "this is their new hoax" - "their" being the Democrats and news media to which Trump was referring.

Had it been manipulated to just say "a hoax", the lawyer might possibly have a point. But there's a "their" there, which covers the original context.

[mr_lebowski]

53. It's even debatable whether he called the virus a hoax or not ...

His people certainly felt the need to CLARIFY immediately after.

If it were actually clear what he meant, they wouldn't have had to.

If you read the exact quote or watch the video, either meaning is clearly logically derivable.

[cilla4progress]

51. Baseless

as always.

But 'murkans love him, apparently!

[Fresh_Start]

54. They should add a counter...showing number of deaths

due to his inaction. Heck show the counts by state so that the viewer knows how it affected people like them.