{"id":55711,"date":"2020-11-20T09:51:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55711"},"modified":"2020-11-20T09:51:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:51:34","slug":"will-the-trump-team-prove-a-global-conspiracy-or-will-dominion-sue-for-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55711","title":{"rendered":"Will The Trump Team Prove A Global Conspiracy Or Will Dominion Sue For Defamation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/will-trump-team-prove-global-conspiracy-or-will-dominion-sue-defamation\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Will The Trump Team Prove A Global Conspiracy Or Will Dominion Sue For Defamation?<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/sidney-powell-says-trump-legal-team-will-sue-officials-invalidate-election-results\">we detailed previously,\u00a0<\/a>yesterday&#8217;s press conference held by the Trump legal team was not for the faint of heart.<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1329549873516048387&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fwill-trump-team-prove-global-conspiracy-or-will-dominion-sue-defamation&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1329549873516048387\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2020\/11\/19\/is-dominion-going-to-sue-the-trump-team\/\">As Jonathan Turley writes<\/a>,\u00a0<strong>the team alleged a global, Communist-backed conspiracy to \u201cinject\u201d and \u201cchange\u201d votes through the use of the Dominion computer system.<\/strong>\u00a0It was exhausting and breathtaking. I was critical of the press conference as being long on heated rhetoric and short on hard evidence.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominionvoting.com\/\">Dominion issued a statement categorically denying the allegations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The question is whether Dominion itself will now sue.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The company denied the allegations but I often measure such denials by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2020\/08\/25\/the-falwell-fiasco-and-the-curious-absence-of-a-defamation-lawsuit\/\">whether anyone actually sues<\/a>. \u00a0Dominion could do so and force the Trump team to reveal the evidence supporting their allegations or face potentially significant liability.\u00a0<strong>I assume that counsel like Sidney Powell would not make such allegations without proof, but the press conference did not make such evidence public.<\/strong>\u00a0But these are not just colorful but criminal allegations against named companies and by implication corporate officials and political allies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2020-11-20_5-30-27.jpg?itok=1n5EihQW\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2020-11-20_5-30-27.jpg?itok=1n5EihQW\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/2020-11-20_5-30-27.jpg?itok=xd4GGu3R 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/2020-11-20_5-30-27.jpg?itok=xd4GGu3R 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/2020-11-20_5-30-27.jpg?itok=xd4GGu3R 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/2020-11-20_5-30-27.jpg?itok=xd4GGu3R 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/2020-11-20_5-30-27.jpg?itok=xd4GGu3R 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2020-11-20_5-30-27.jpg?itok=1n5EihQW 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2020-11-20_5-30-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"ea89e542-1de6-4c17-a0b8-7fc06445c5c7\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump campaign counsel repeatedly accused Dominion and its officers of criminal conduct and business improprieties.<\/strong>\u00a0Those are categories of \u201cper se defamation\u201d under the common law. No special damages must be shown in such per se cases. Individual officers could bring defamation claims and the company itself could bring a business disparagement action.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses can be defamed like individuals if the false statement injures the business character of the corporation or its prestige and standing in the industry.\u00a0In\u00a0<em>Dun &amp; Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc<\/em>., 472 U.S. 749 (1985) the Supreme Court allowed a business to sue a credit reporting agency for defamation where the agency mistakenly reported that the business had filed for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will The Trump Team Prove A Global Conspiracy Or Will Dominion Sue For Defamation? As we detailed previously,\u00a0yesterday&#8217;s press conference held by the Trump legal team was not for the faint of heart. As Jonathan Turley writes,\u00a0the team alleged a global, Communist-backed conspiracy to \u201cinject\u201d and \u201cchange\u201d votes through the use of the Dominion computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30602,30601,7844,253,30604,30603,30605,30491,4318],"class_list":["post-55711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-dominion-computer-systems","tag-dominion-computer-systesm","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-elections-fraud","tag-global-conspiracy","tag-johnathan-turley","tag-sidney-powell","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55712,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55711\/revisions\/55712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}