If the media is correct, Porny Daniels and her scumbag lawyer are about to lose a defamation case against Trump over one of his tweets.
FOX NEWS – A U.S. federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday appeared poised to throw out adult film actress Stormy Daniel’s defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump on free-speech grounds, Reuters reported.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, sued the president in April over a tweet in which he denied her claims of being subtly threatened by a man in a Las Vegas parking lot in 2011.
Here’s the tweet:
A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)! https://t.co/9Is7mHBFda
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 18, 2018
Daniels said the man was threatening her for going public about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. Trump has denied the affair took place, and cast doubt on her story of being threatened.
“A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!” Trump tweeted.
Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti said the tweet damaged her credibility by portraying her as a liar. Trump’s attorneys have asked a federal judge in Los Angeles to dismiss the suit.
According to Reuters, the judge suggested the president has a free speech right to make these comments:
“The question is whether the tweet by the president is protected communication or political hyperbole and non-defamatory on its face,” U.S. District Judge James Otero said at a hearing on Monday.
Otero cited certain protections from defamation Trump would have under the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of free-speech rights.
“He’s a public official, he’s president of the United States, so it doesn’t get much higher than that,” Otero said. “It’s free speech by a public official on a matter of public concern.”
Otero stopped short of issuing a formal ruling on the request to dismiss the lawsuit.
The lawsuit was stupid in the first place. Whether you like the tweet or not, Trump is entitled to have an opinion and can express it. I hope the judge rules in favor of protected speech, as it sounds like he will.
Of course, at this point, I’m just happy to see Avenatti lose another case in the public eye.