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Today, Kash Patel sent a letter to my counsel @MarkSZaidEsq - threatening legal action & demanding that I retract my comments on MSNBC about his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This aligns with his threats against the media & political opponents, revealing how he might conduct himself if confirmed in the role. I stand by my statementsmy priority remains the safety & security of the American people. I am not the only one who has expressed concerns about him. So why me? And so it begins.
1:40 PM · Dec 4, 2024
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Initech
(102,511 posts)Like they wouldn't have anything if they didn't have the almighty lawsuit. Fuck Kash Patel.
Hotler
(12,388 posts)over everything?
Initech
(102,511 posts)Shit, Fuckface himself files giant lawsuits over people who so much as breathe in his direction wrong.
rich7862
(235 posts)There are no frivolous lawsuits for the middle class and the poor. Even the threat, stops protesters to this Nazi regime that has stollen our government.
benfranklin1776
(6,598 posts)They assume everyone is as bereft of morality as they: and talk about your ultimate snowflakes! One tiny bit of legitimate criticism and they fold like a cheap Herb Tarlic leisure suit and shriek persecution persecution, and stamp their tiny body parts furiously like manic cymbal clanging wind up toy monkeys. 🙈
Trueblue1968
(18,258 posts)Sue me .... sue me ..... sue me. sue!!!!!!!!!!
NotHardly
(1,365 posts)ScratchCat
(2,470 posts)The last paragraph is hilarious on several levels.
spanone
(137,662 posts)tanyev
(44,736 posts)Probably because you are a woman and are either considered an easier target, or because criticism from a woman outrages him much more than criticism from a man.
Thats my guess.
bucolic_frolic
(47,586 posts)Typical Republican tactic.
MadameButterfly
(1,946 posts)from being FBI director.
Man, if these guys would sue over this, they could have 20 law suits a day just watching MSNBC.
And triple that from Dems watching Fox.
I knew it would be bad, but it's always worse than we could imagine.
SunSeeker
(54,061 posts)MadameButterfly
(1,946 posts)because it's just to hard to call out all of it, and the standard for winning is too high.
It reminds me of Elon getting upset at how he was portrayed by SNL.
These guys want to run the world with an iron fist, inflict fear and economic pain, but they are soooo upset when their feelings get hurt. They are little children playing with matches.
SunSeeker
(54,061 posts)He did it because the guy criticized Elon's stupid idea of using a small submarine to rescue the boys.
The man, who was obviously not a public figure, sued Elon for defamation. Elon hired the best high powered lawyers and won, with the ridiculous argument that "pedo guy" was just a commonly used South African term and not meant to be taken literally as pedophile. Yes, justice can be bought.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593
City Lights
(25,429 posts)Mike 03
(17,372 posts)The paywall and ads blocked me before I could get an excerpt:
(Damn, I really wanted to read this one, but I won't subscribe to the DB)
The Daily Beast (from May 2022)
Top Trump Lawyer Is a Longtime Tax Deadbeat
Trump lawyer Jesse Binnall has owed the IRS more than $100,000 for years.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-trump-lawyer-jesse-binnall-is-a-longtime-tax-deadbeat/
SunSeeker
(54,061 posts)I really hate these assholes.
calimary
(84,607 posts)onecaliberal
(36,318 posts)UpInArms
(51,903 posts)Just paste your hard to read links in this
https://archive.ph/
And read away
Sundance1220
(177 posts)and start with discovery. There is plenty out there to get a jury to side with her and nobody should back down from these disgusting clowns.
Dennis Donovan
(27,417 posts)Sundance1220
(177 posts)exactly what she needs. Show no fear and pile on as much as you can. Love it.
MineralMan
(147,987 posts)uncledad
(66 posts)mgardener
(1,911 posts)Elise Stefanik, Kevin McCarthy and Kash Patel met with Trump in the OVal Office on Jan 4th.
I doubt they were d8scussing the weather.
Stefanik is up for Ambassador to the UN.
Patel for FBI.
McCarthy ousted as Speaker and resigned early.
I wonder what was discussed.
It seems somebody was not willing to bow down to Trump and paid the price
Ranting Randy
(106 posts)If you would like to contact the Binnall Law Group to voice your displeasure at their taking on this type of suit, here is the contact info from their letterhead:
Binnall Law Group
717 King Street
Suite 200
Alexandria , VA 22314
P: 703-888-1943
F: 703-888-1930
orangecrush
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Mr. Sparkle
(3,149 posts)over the next few years , it will be easier to hold these guys to account.
spudspud
(558 posts)No way a real lawyer wrote that. It reads like a long Twitter post.
SidneyR
(126 posts)saying we also consider ourselves critics of the nomination and allies of Ms. Troye. Sort of like the "I am Spartacus" move. In fact, we should do this in every instance someone is threatened by the fascists.
orangecrush
(22,122 posts)Please don't skeer me, MAGATs!
Irish_Dem
(59,696 posts)Should be Exhibit A if there is a trial.
Owens
(352 posts)This is a fascist move by Patel, trying to silence the media
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,739 posts)The FBI? They are out of their minds.
barbtries
(29,950 posts)if they ever happen.
orangecrush
(22,122 posts)I hope somehow someone at long long last finally puts the fear of God into these fuckers.
Gore1FL
(21,990 posts)magicarpet
(16,955 posts)Fuck the US Constitution,..
Fuck Freedom of Speech,...
Fuck Freedom of the Press,....
Can I still be confirmed by the
senate ? TrDUMPee is my bosom buddy.
NutmegYankee
(16,335 posts)This is just a terror campaign to silence critics.
LetMyPeopleVote
(155,516 posts)One of the lies being told by Patel is that he did not endanger a Seal Team. Here are some facts
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https://www.spytalk.co/p/how-kash-patel-bungled-a-seal-team
On October 30, 2020, President Trump signed off on a mission to have SEAL Team Six rescue Philip Walton, a 27-year-old American who gunmen had abducted from his farm in the West African nation of Niger, near the border with Nigeria. The kidnappers had hustled Walton across the border to Nigeria and were demanding a $1 million ransom.
In their book Only I Can Fix It, journalists Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker reported that the plan called for the SEALs to parachute into northern Nigeria and move three miles on foot to reach the compound where Walton was being held.
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper had signed off on the plan with one or two questions: Did we have permission to fly over Nigeria?
Patel, then the senior director for counterterrorism on the National Security Council, assured the Pentagon that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo got the airspace cleared.
A few hours later, the Pentagon learned that Patel was wrong: Nigeria had not given permission......
But the Pentagon was still furious at Patel. Tony Tata, the Pentagon official to whom Patel had given the green light, confronted Patel in a rage.
You couldve gotten these guys killed! Tata shouted at Patel, according to a report in The Atlantic. What the fuck were you thinking?
Patels response was: If nobody got hurt, who the fuck cares?
Is this the kind of person we want running the FBI? ###
LetMyPeopleVote
(155,516 posts)Mark Zaid is a first class attorney and Binnall is a hack who has filed a couple of lawsuits for trump. I love the concept of using a picture from Monty Python to respond to Patel's demand for a retraction
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LetMyPeopleVote
(155,516 posts)This response by Troye's attorney made me laugh
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https://www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-2670350304/
In a legal letter on Friday, Mark Zaid sneered at demands Kash Patel made for Olivia Troye, a former counterterrorism aide to Mike Pence, to publicly retract defamatory statements of the MAGA loyalist. Zaid answered Patels lawyer Jesse Binnall, a veteran Trump attorney, by first noting that Troyes statements have been previously stated by a wide swath of the knowledgeable population.
He then offered Patels attorney a visual image in his letter to reiterate his stance.
But to answer your specific question as to Ms. Troyes intensions as to a retraction, I think Monty Python expresses it best, Zaid wrote above a photo of a mustached character from the Monty Python film known as the French Taunter.
My counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.socials response to #KashPatel & his threat to sue me for being critical of him on media & stating he is unfit to serve as FBI Director, Troye wrote on social media. Monty Python enters the chat.
And Zaid wasnt done. He also launched a social media blitz where he dug into his unwavering defense of his client and referred to Patel as thin-skinned.