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Trump to bring $15 billion defamation and libel lawsuit against The New York Times (www.cnn.com)

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[–] uss_entrepreneur@startrek.website 1 points 5 hours ago

Not lawyer. But pretty sure the hate speech exception , if there is one, is only if it incites a crime.

Perfectly legal to spout off all the ignorant bullshit you want as long as you don’t incite people to do crimes.

But you are right. The bar for a person like the president who is a public figure, winning a libel or slander case is typically pretty high, especially against the press.

But in this timeline I don’t know.