Trump is so terrible, these Republicans are arguing, that tying them to him amounts to defamation.

[kpete]

Republicans Threaten Lawsuits Over TV Ads Linking Them To Donald Trump
Saying a candidate supports Trump is basically defamation, they argue.


WASHINGTON ― Some Republicans are running so far away from their party’s nominee that they are threatening to sue TV stations for running ads that suggest they support Donald Trump.

Just two weeks before Election Day, five Republicans ― Reps. Bob Dold (R-Ill.), Mike Coffman (R-Colo.), David Jolly (R-Fla.), John Katko (R-N.Y.) and Brian Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania Republican running for an open seat that’s currently occupied by his brother ― contend that certain commercials paid for by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee provide false or misleading information by connecting them to the GOP nominee.

Trump is so terrible, these Republicans are essentially arguing, that tying them to him amounts to defamation.



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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-tv-ads-trump_us_580e34b2e4b000d0b157b24f

[Xipe Totec]

1. Sounds like a strong case. nt

[world wide wally]

2. It is!

So, there ya go

[Enrique]

3. not an ideal situation for the GOP

[malaise]

5. It's freaking delish!

[Warren DeMontague]

4. yeah, it's like someone broke into the convention and just left him there on the stage.

How'd he get here? We had nothing to do with it.

[canetoad]

9. Hahaaa

Trying to picture a bunch of deplorables smuggling him in, in a big basket.

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. It's all a game - who gets to decide - an example out of Ohio 2014

defamation?? -

Bradley Smith, a law professor who served as chairman of the Federal Elections Commission and now runs the Center for Competitive Politics, says the whole thing is a game.


Here’s how it works: If you’re a candidate, he says, in the last days of the election you file a complaint against someone who’s run an ad or distributed a flier you don’t like. A three-member panel of the commission then finds “probable cause” to look into whether the accused has made a false statement.

“The complaining candidate then features this finding in advertisements run over the last weekend of the campaign,” says Smith. “It will say, ‘A panel of the Ohio elections commission found probable cause that my dirty rotten scumbag opponent’s campaign ads are lies.’


Never mind that long after the election, most complaints are dismissed. The intimidation has had its effect, as the billboard example illustrates.

This from - 2014

http://nypost.com/2014/01/16/who-decides-if-a-political-ad-is-a-lie/

[niyad]

7. unless they can produce proof that they actually denounced him, what do they think

is going to happen?

[ThoughtCriminal]

8. Okay, let me see if I can get this out

Okay... No don't go away! I'll try again...

Snort!

No seriously, I have to sa...



Let me compose myself... Okay I'm ready... If we think ba...

hic! Hic!

Oh now I have the hic-ups so never mind, but you know what I'm trying to say.

[AmericanActivist]

10. My husband, an ex-Republican since W, when I shared your headline on this

thread said they are RWC's which is a variation of RINO (Republican in name only).
RWC = Republican When Convenient

[Old and In the Way]

11. So, lets parse this out.

Don Trump and aggreived parties are running as Republicans. Democratic ads note that they are Republicans. How is this libel?

[meow2u3]

12. GOP definition of defamation

1) When Democrats refuse to abide by the past double standard that gave repukes a license to smear Democrats with impunity and with a guarantee that said Democrats would not be allowed to repay them in kind.
2) When Dems give repukes a taste of their own medicine, e.g., by tying down-ballot repukes to a certain toxic tangerine on the top of the Presidential ticket whose name shall not be mentioned.