https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5164760-trump-lawsuits-books-anonymous-sources-all-or-nothing-michael-wolff/ President Trump on Wednesday threatened lawsuits against authors who use anonymous sources in books about him or his allies, calling them defamatory and dishonest.
Trump also teased that a new law could be created to protect against anonymous sourcing in books, while arguing the first month of his second term has been historically successful.
“As a President who is being given credit for having the Best Opening Month of any President in history, quite naturally, here come the Fake books and stories with the so-called ‘anonymous,’ or ‘off the record,’ quotes,” he wrote on Truth Social.
“At some point I am going to sue some of these dishonest authors and book publishers, or even media in general, to find out whether or not these ‘anonymous sources’ even exist, which they largely do not,” he added.
Trump said consequences have to be paid for dishonesty, tying that with using anonymous sourcing.
“They are made up, defamatory fiction, and a big price should be paid for this blatant dishonesty. I’ll do it as a service to our Country. Who knows, maybe we will create some NICE NEW LAW!!!” he said.
Trump’s threat comes as he has slammed a new book by author Michael Wolff, calling it “a total FAKE JOB.” The book, “All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America,” discusses Trump allies, including lawyer Boris Epshteyn and billionaire Elon Musk, according to a New York Times review published Friday.
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During the first Trump administration, Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” portrayed the president as someone who didn’t believe he would win election and faced difficulties with some of the basics of governing.
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Reality check: libel and slander must be proved in court. they are already illegal, despite what OP is going on about. You must prove intent and harm and those laws have been on the books forever.
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>>1387569 Then what's this "NEW LAW" Trump wants to propose?
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>>1387577 It's in the OP, I'll quote it for you.
>Trump said consequences have to be paid for dishonesty, tying that with using anonymous sourcing. >“They are made up, defamatory fiction, and a big price should be paid for this blatant dishonesty. I’ll do it as a service to our Country. Who knows, maybe we will create some NICE NEW LAW!!!” he said. Essentially, he's floating the idea of more drastic measures being taken against anonymous sources but isn't actually giving any specifics. Like a lot of Trump's social media posts, it's hard to tell how much will end up being implemented as policy and how much is just him idly speculating/wildly shitposting. His signal-to-noise ratio is fucking crazy.
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>>1387561 >Trump says something crazy! >It's actually not that crazy. Defamation laws have existed for hundreds of years. It's another nothing-burger, "Trump said/did X and it's the worst thing since Hitler!", seething thread from angry lefties again.
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>>1387623 You're missing how he's threatening papers for not sucking his dick even though the start of his term has only been successful in terms of passing things he said he would pass. So far the results have been higher prices, a crashing stock market, and massive legal troubles for his admin. Not to mention ICE failing to meet even his minimum quota and managing to crater our foreign relations overnight to the point we're facing boycotts from some of our closest trading partners.
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>>1387625 Yawn. Stop lying retard. You're just mad you can make shit up anymore
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>>1387625 >You're missing how he's threatening papers for not sucking his dick Yeah I'm going to stop you right there. What he actually said was
>made up, defamatory fiction Telling the truth is sucking someone's dick now? Holy shit the left is fucking pathetic. No wonder you can't explain what a woman is.
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>>1387629 "made up, defamatory fiction" that he didn't have a successful first month, which so far he objectively has not.
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>>1387634 You sure about that? Because it feels pretty fucking successful to me.
>illegal immigration down 90% >forcing Columbia to take back their people >Russia/Ukraine war coming to an end >bringing Mexico and Canada to heel >cutting all sorts of waste in government spending >pardoned everyone at Jan 6th >loading his cabinet with almost total control of entire government >put someone pro-gun in charge of the ATF >forced trannies out of women's sports >forcing DEI out of military >cutting out all the oil restrictions Biden put in >in fact revoking almost everything Biden did >making democrats seethe as he cranks out executive orders like a machine I'm sorry, I'm lost on the "which so far he objectively has not" part you're bullshitting.
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>>1387639 The part where we're facing international boycotts, the stock market is going to shit, he's failing his own immigration quotas, and now we've got multiple agencies that fired people and now are scrambling to get them back because they didn't realize they were important until after they kicked them out.
See, what you say are his "successes" are mostly just his actions. It's easy to achieve an action. What's important is the RESULTS. Like the lowered food prices, higher pay, and additional jobs he promised would be the result of all this, none of which has manifested yet (and in several cases the exact opposite happened). You can campaign on what you think is a good idea all you want. Get elected on it even if people agree with you. But the objective reality is what actually matters, and right now the objective reality as a results of said actions is pretty shit.
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>>1387639 >put someone pro-gun in charge of the ATF The purpose of the ATF is to punish people for owning guns.
If he was pro-gun, he would abolish the ATF entirely.
You retards also conveniently forget that he banned bump stocks. He was trying to throw lawful gun owners in prison for owning a piece of plastic.
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>>1387639 >loading his cabinet with almost total control of entire government Nobody should want a pro-israel president consolidating power.
>making democrats seethe as he cranks out executive orders like a machine Making policy based on "I hope this makes people mad" isn't a good idea either. There's a good chance America will face another colored revolution because he's in office.
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>>1387640 >he's failing his own immigration quotas What part of 90% reduction did you miss? Y'know if he promised to get rid of them all and only gets rid of 90%, I'm still counting that as a win - especially after the fucking disaster we had under Biden/Kamala.
>See, what you say are his "successes" are mostly just his actions. It's easy to achieve an action. What's important is the RESULTS. And so far I'm happy with his results, especially the part with putting Kash Patel in charge of the ATF.
>Like the lowered food prices Oh now we give a shit about that? Really? It's funny how last year you motherfuckers were gaslighting us on how great the economy is doing and people complaining about cost of living are just too dumb to understand it. Would I like the price of eggs to go down? Sure, but don't fucking pretend to me like you give a shit about that now when you were arguing against me when Biden was running it.
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>>1387641 >The purpose of the ATF is to punish people for owning guns. >If he was pro-gun, he would abolish the ATF entirely. And with Kash Patel being in charge of both ATF and FBI, I'm looking forward to the ATF being dissolved and all responsibilities transferred to FBI.
>You retards also conveniently forget that he banned bump stocks. Oh God here we go again. A nothing-burger, feel-good measure bone he threw to anti-gun democrats to try to get them to shut up after the Vegas shooting. Newsflash nogunz: you don't need a bump-stock to bump-fire a rifle, so this ban is almost pointless.
And seeing as his bone to dems to get them to chill didn't work, I expect that's the last time he'll every try that again.
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>>1387643 >There's a good chance America will face another colored revolution because he's in office. When Trump first got elected in 2016 there were riots everyday until his inauguration, and at least one every year since. How many riots have we seen this time? The left doesn't have anymore energy to go around firebombing minority-owned stores because they're mad racism won or whatever the fuck this time.
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>>1387629 Can you explain why criticizing the president in fiction should be banned? Seems like freedom of speech actually.
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>>1387644 >What part of 90% reduction did you miss? Y'know if he promised to get rid of them all and only gets rid of 90% ICE was given a deportation quota of minimum 1200 a day. They never got further than 1100 and then dropped as low as 300.
>And so far I'm happy with his results, We don't have any results with his appointees yet. We have to see how they react to whatever is going to test their positions, like a public health crisis for RFK (Which he's already not addressing well due to saying the first measles death in a decade was "Not unusual") or a terror incident for the FBI.
>Oh now we give a shit about that? It got higher you retard. And it will continue to get higher with Trump having paralyzed every vehicle for addressing the bird flu epidemic crippling the egg industry and his antagonization of foreign partners. Biden didn't prevent the CDC, NIH, or FDA from doing their jobs like Trump is still doing. And because of it what would've been a temporary price spike is now looking to be a long-term supply issue.
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>>1387647 >in fiction Are they being done in fiction, or presented as facts?
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>>1387650 You said it's fiction, should I be jailed for making a fiction book with the president doing something unflattering??
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>>1387649 >It got higher you retard. Only the eggs retard. The rest of the groceries have gone down a bit according to BLS, especially compared to 2023 when you fucking faggots were trying to gaslight us into thinking that the economy was actually doing good. See
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/10/bidens-numbers-october-2023-update/ and
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/inflation-food-prices-democrat-biden/676901/ for examples of this.
>The economy is hot, but the people are bothered. Americans think the country is in dreadful economic shape despite strong wage growth, low unemployment, and steadily declining inflation. So once again - shut - your - fucking - mouth - about pretending to give a flying fuck about the cost of groceries. You didn't care then, you don't care now, and you're only bitching about it because Trump is in office.
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>>1387651 >You said it's fiction *sigh* ... Do I have to explain how quotes work?
... ffs, TRUMP is calling it fiction. In other words he's calling it lies. Jesus fucking Christ can you read?
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>>1387651 If you are claiming your fictional story is factual, and report it to news agencies as fact, that's slander
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>>1387649 >ICE was given a deportation quota of minimum 1200 a day. They never got further than 1100 and then dropped as low as 300. Sounds like deportations just got a lot tougher now that trump closed Bidens open border.
Nothing wrong with lofty goals though
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>>1387652 >You guys >Price of eggs goes up another dollar >Don't actually >Price of eggs goes up another dollar >Care about >Price of eggs goes up another dollar >Egg prices! >Price of eggs goes up another dollar Anonymous
>>1387655 That's not how deportation numbers work. First of all, you retards were arguing Biden let in shit-tons. That alone should mean Trump's deportation numbers should be legendary. Secondly, setting too high quotas just makes you look retarded and your staff incompetent. Lofty goals doesn't apply when you set a target and fail to reach it, it just means you overestimated yourself and look like a dumbass. Third, even if we apply that logic, the fact ICE was doing the same to potentially better numbers under Biden is a mark of shame, because they were given all these additional resources and permissions yet failed to produce better results. And now they're asking for more money, which really makes it seem like their cost-effectiveness is just worse now.
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>>1387657 Is the border more secure or less secure under Trump than it was under Biden?
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>>1387660 It must be a shock to realize that a large number of people who don't browse /pol/ voted for Trump. But I guess that means more than half of the country are nazis then?
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>>1387663 >I voted for him 3 times, right?
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>>1387646 >The left doesn't have anymore energy They tried to kill him three times retard.
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>>1387654 Does Harry Potter need a fucking disclaimer?
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>>1387674 No, because the author isn't purporting it to be factual and using it to slander a living person, you fuckface.
How hard is this for you? Are you legitimately stupid?
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>>1387668 Oddly enough, the leftists I argue with all the time are constantly reminding me that the people who tried to kill him were Republicans. Nonetheless, I'm clearly making a comparison to the "resistance" and "protests" we saw in 2016 vs what we see today. I don't recall seeing a cop car being set on fire after Trump won another election, so clearly there's a difference.
The left doesn't have it in them to riot over nothing anymore. They've spent it all being fake outraged during Trump's first term and can't scrape enough antifag rich white kids to "fight the power" now that most of them served a prison term. Oh don't get me wrong, we see protests in Southern California against ICE deporting people, but no gun shots or pipe bombs yet.
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>>1387561 wow look at the far-left trying to pretend freedom of speech is under attack because some lying cunt wants to use nonexistant sources pulled from their arse and pretend they're anonymous real people.
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>>1387677 the news doesn't record it anymore, that's the difference. do you like being a goldfish
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>>1387677 >. I don't recall seeing a cop car being set on fire after Trump won another election, so clearly there's a difference. Although they have been shooting up Tesla dealerships and setting fires to cars in Oregon
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>>1387686 Got a source on that?
>in before some lone wolf meth head and not protesting lefties those were the days. my friend, I'd thought they'd never end
those were the days. my friend, I'd thought they'd never end Thu 27 Feb 2025 10:52:02 No. 1387688 Report >>1387677 Many resistance freedom fighters in the 60s and 70s were far left. Weather Underground,SLA, Black Panthers, etc. But then the far right had the big one. KKK, and many lone wolves like the Oklahoma City bombers.
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>>1387688 Cool... What the fuck does this have to do with what I posted? Besides nothing?
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>>1387640 >ITT Democraps care about stonks. 90s Republicans with fake vaginas, I'll tell ya.
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>>1387691 you're a faggot and also not american. your input is less than useless
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>>1387738 >opinion piece by people with no experience in animal farming Anonymous
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>>1387742 Yes anon, there is a bird flu epidemic. Trump is the one preventing the CDC, FDA, and NIH from properly responding to it by killing their research grants and blocking them from making public announcements. Hope this helps.
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>>1387744 And Biden's the one who killed 100 million birds, raising the cost of eggs before Trump even took office. What a coincidence that dems couldn't wait a week before blaming him for that one.
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>>1387744 >>1387745 Both of those old faggots are shit presidents and neither of them will or did do anything to help the country
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>>1387745 Is this why Demojerks are so laser focused on eggs?
They knew this would happen so they're pushing "Muh egg prices!!!" hard.
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>>1387754 Pretty much. It's the only thing they can go after Trump for and have any kind of a toehold in an argument. It's not like they can come at him with illegal immigration - although they sure as hell try here on /news/ even though you have to be a complete retard to pretend that Trump's border stance isn't stronger than Biden/Kamala.
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Someone explain to me why it would be bad if Trump became a king or dictator? Congress and the courts have clearly failed. Our system just does not work. Trump is the only one doing anything. Trump is the only one working, but these cancers hold him back. Why wouldn't it be good to just organize all power to Trump?
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>>1387756 They can't. They're NPCs who haven't shaken off the leftist brainwashing from the cathedral (schools). They'll say that democracy gud because it is the only form of government they know, that it is just the way things are/should be. Even cuckservatives believed it in their heads they are defending democracy as they consolidated power into the presidency during the War on Terror. Democracy is breaking down across the world because it is incapable of keeping pace with today's rapidly changing world. You need a responsive, fast acting government, which means optimizing and minimizing leadership. You need fewer hands on the steering wheel (ie dictatorship or aristocracy). This is why autocratic private interests, such as corporations, have flourished while liberal democratic governments have withered. Philosophers like Nick Land and Mencius Moldbug write extensively about this. I would recommend people give them a read. They can put this into words far better than I can.
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>>1387758 >>1387756 The best part about crowning Trump god-emperor would be the seething it would produce from the left.
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>>1387756 >Someone explain to me why it would be bad if Trump became a king or dictator? Trump was friends with Epstein and flew on his plane (called the Lolita express).
Epstein used Little Saint James Island as a sex tourism destination, where he would record his clientele sleeping with children and use it as blackmail. At one point he tried to blackmail Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew with these alleged tapes.
Epstein had Mossad (Israel's version of the CIA) agents guarding him. Epstein's father was also a mossad agent, and frequently bragged he had connections to Mossad.
If Trump becomes king, the USA would have a royal bloodline that would be completely beholden to Israel.
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>>1387759 DELICIOUS SEETHING
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>>1387760 >Epstein had Mossad (Israel's version of the CIA) agents guarding him. And how did that work out?
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>>1387676 Are you retarded? You know bad things are said about the president every day no matter which party right? Why is your cult leader so thin skinned he has to sue book authors for saying something mean?
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>>1387781 They let him do whatever he wanted until he tried to squeal, then he magically died in a maximum security prison under constant surveillance.
Senators interviewing Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Kathleen Sawyer makes a lot more sense when you realize that she, like they, are on the take of Israel.
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>>1387833 >They let him do whatever he wanted until he tried to squeal, Not even close to being true.
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>>1387561 BULLSHIT.
You are free to say or publish anything you want, as long as it doesn't insult President Krasnov ... (signal lost)
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>>1387836 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein >On June 30, 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18,[119] he was sentenced to eighteen months in prison. While most convicted sex offenders in Florida are sent to state prison, Epstein was instead housed in a private wing of the Palm Beach County Stockade and, according to the sheriff's office, was, after 3+1⁄2 months, allowed to leave the jail on "work release" for up to twelve hours a day, six days a week. This contravened the sheriff's own policies requiring a maximum remaining sentence of ten months and making sex offenders ineligible for the privilege. He was allowed to come and go outside of specified release hours. Anonymous
>>1387852 How is that supposed to be letting him do whatever he wants?
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>>1388028 How many people have tried to traffic minors and were allowed to leave prison for six days a week, retard?
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>>1388060 More than you think, which is my point.
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>>1387655 Dude there are MILLIONS of illegals in this country. The numbers are not enough.
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>>1388060 How many Democrats are there?
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>>1387601 >>Trump said consequences have to be paid for dishonesty, tying that with using anonymous sourcing. Ah yes, let's trust the man who's dishonest on what dishonesty is
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>>1387650 I present as fact that Trump is a pedophile negligent retard. My evidence? Everything he says and does.
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>>1387756 Because he's Israel's whore. And you're either hasbara of brain rotted Americans that we don't need right now
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>>1387756 He's a fucking idiot conman who has absolutely nothing going for him outside of having a hand up his own asshole feeding the dumbest people on the face of the planet. Shut the fuck up.
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>>1387836 It is 100% true.
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>>1387561 Yeah that's not freedom of speech issues, that's libel
But you know what lol
Who fin cares dude
There are robot humanoid avatars and electric flying cars now and there's Gen AI slop and free publishing on Amazon for a decade now lmao
Who gives a shit about what some illiterate unimaginative lazy SPIC posts online now
we're THIS CLOSE to Terminator-cum-Gattaca and we're arguing pittances lmao
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>>1387639 >bringing Mexico and Canada to heel no countries are supposed to "bring others to heel"... nations have to work side by side and cooperate for mutual advancements
