Little socialist worm for NBC/MSNBC Lawrence O’Donnell might be in deep doo doo for reporting on fake news, given by one “anonymous” source. Last night, little socialist Lawrence O’Donnell claimed that Trump’s tax returns show he pays very little income tax and, more importantly, that his loans have Russian co-signers.
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One part about the story I believe. I think Trump probably does avoid a lot of taxes, legally just like Amazon. As far as the “Russian loan co-signers”, that’s pure and complete BS. It seems Lawrence O’Donnell and NBC/MSNBC is in a race to the bottom with CNN for pimping out fake news. Now, Trump is threatening to sue NBC/O’Donnell for defamation and his attorney fired off a letter to the attorneys at NBC. Breitbart obtained a copy of the letter.
“This law firm is litigation counsel for President Donald J. Trump (‘Mr. Trump’) and The Trump Organization (‘Trump Org.’),” Charles Harder of Harder LLP law firm wrote to MSNBC executives, in a letter obtained by Breitbart News. “We write concerning the false and defamatory statements published by Lawrence O’Donnell and NBC Universal (‘NBCU’) (collectively, ‘you’ and ‘your’) about Mr. Trump and Trump Org. in an episode of the program, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, which was broadcasted on or about August 27, 2019 (the ‘Program’), and also published by Mr. O’Donnell and NBCU in a tweet posted on that same date (the ‘Tweet’). The Program and Tweet make the false and defamatory statements that ‘Russian oligarchs’ cosigned loans provided to Mr. Trump by Deutsche Bank, and described these ‘co-signers’ as ‘Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin.’”
Harder writes that the statements from O’Donnell and MSNBC are “false and defamatory.”
“These statements are false and defamatory, and extremely damaging,” the president’s lawyer wrote. “The only borrowers under these loans are Trump entities, and Mr. Trump is the only guarantor. Numerous documents for each of these loans are also recorded, publicly available and searchable online. Thus, actual malice can easily be proven based on your reckless disregard of the truth and unreasonable reliance on an alleged ‘source’ who you will not even identify in your story and likely is seeking to mislead you and the public for political reasons or other ulterior motives.”
As such, Harder wrote that Trump is demanding a retraction and apology from MSNBC and O’Donnell.
“Demand is hereby made that Mr. O’Donnell and NBCU immediately and prominently retract, correct and apologize for the aforementioned false and defamatory statements,” Harder’s letter continues.
The letter concludes by noting that MSNBC must preserve all documents in the case of litigation as a result of O’Donnell’s actions.
A failure to respond and retract the statement within 24 hours, Harder wrote, would mean the president will pursue legal action against the network.
“Failure to do so will leave my clients with no alternative but to consider their legal options which could include immediate legal proceedings against Mr. O’Donnell and NBCU,” Harder wrote. “Should that occur, my clients would pursue all available causes of action and seek all available damages and other legal remedies to the maximum extent permitted by law.”
This obvious worked as both NBC and little cockroach O’Donnell are now backing away from their fake news. Check out this squirming little tweet from O’Donnell:
Last night I made an error in judgment by reporting an item about the president’s finances that didn’t go through our rigorous verification and standards process. I shouldn’t have reported it and I was wrong to discuss it on the air. I will address the issue on my show tonight.
— Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) August 28, 2019
Too late Larry. You and NBC are going to get owned.