The anti-Jolly ad, for instance, features images of his face photoshopped next to Trump in a hypothetical world where Trump is president. The ad labels it as a "dramatization." Jolly has been one of Trump's toughest GOP critics, having called for him to drop out of the race after he proposed banning Muslim immigration and having continued to refuse to endorse Trump. A letter from the Jolly campaign's attorney to local Florida stations called the ad "patently false" and threatens "legal remedies" if the ad's run was continued.

bitterross

(4,066 posts)

2. Talk about the reverse of coat tails! /nt

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Mon Oct 24, 2016, 08:40 PM

Oct 2016

Initech

(107,575 posts)

3. They're all stupid losers!!!! Nobody is as smart or as great as I am!!

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Mon Oct 24, 2016, 08:42 PM

Oct 2016

Jarqui

(10,836 posts)

4. As politicians, they're public officials ... who have to prove

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Mon Oct 24, 2016, 09:12 PM

Oct 2016

What is “actual malice” in defamation law?
http://www.rotlaw.com/legal-library/what-is-actual-malice-in-defamation-law/

Rather, actual malice occurs when:

The defendant publishes a statement about the plaintiff he knows is false; or
The defendant publishes a statement about the plaintiff with reckless disregard for whether it is false or true.

In other words, defendants who make statements about public figures are expected to do some background research if they doubt the statement is true. They are also expected not to publish any statement that they know is not true.

So when I read that, a number of lies Trump has maintained about Hillary popped into my head. And then I thought about what the GOP has said about Obama these last 8 plus years ...

Breathtaking hypocrisy.