Judge Tosses Carter Page Defamation Suit Against Yahoo Parent Company

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By Nicole Lafond | March 21, 2018 9:42 am

A New York judge dismissed former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page’s defamation suit against Yahoo News’ parent company Tuesday.

Page filed a lawsuit against Oath Inc. in September 2017, claiming a Yahoo News article damaged his business relationships and led to threats against him. A federal judge on Tuesday said the lawsuit lacked factual accusations of defamation, according to the court documents.

When reached for comment, Page pointed TPM to a tweet on his recently created account blaming “slick lawyers” for derailing his lawsuit and promising to file an amended complaint.

Link to tweet

In Page’s 400-page complaint, in which he sued several media outlets for defamation, Page claimed that a September 2016 Yahoo News article was the beginning of a onslaught of stories about his past work in Russia and his contacts with Kremlin-linked officials during the 2016 campaign. The Yahoo article outlined a trip Page made to Moscow in July 2016, during which he allegedly met with senior Russian officials, such as Igor Sechin, an associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the chairman of Russia’s biggest oil company and Igor Divyekin, a top Putin aide.

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[ToxMarz]

1. His 400 page complaint, hahahaha!

Sounds like his twice failed PhD thesis

Page’s ‘verbose’ and ‘vague’ thesis was failed twice at University of London

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/22/trump-carter-page-phd-thesis-trump

[NCjack]

2. Carter probably drifted into the ol' thesis trap -- argued "the number of angels that

can dance on the head of pin." Sort of like all of the TV interviews he has given.

[PatSeg]

3. The paranoia

is like a contagious disease these days. Hmmm, seems to be everywhere!