CNN report said North Carolina candidate for governor made explicit posts on website’s message board
Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, announced a lawsuit Tuesday against CNN over its recent report alleging he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s message board, calling the reporting reckless and defamatory.
The lawsuit, filed in Wake county superior court, comes less than four weeks after a television report that led many fellow GOP elected officials and candidates, including Donald Trump, to distance themselves from Robinson’s gubernatorial campaign. Robinson announced the lawsuit at a news conference in Raleigh.
Ooooh. Discovery, you say?
Bet that will unearth even more Nazi/Porn weirdness.
Sadly it won’t ever get to that phase. This is just so he can claim it’s a lie between now and election day. He’ll quietly drop the lawsuit about a week after the election.
I wish it were required that both parties agree to the lawsuit being dropped for it not to continue. I’d love to see this frivolous bullshit forced into a courtroom against the plaintiffs will by the defendants.
You can counter sue, so we kind of have that system.
Possibly, but I could also see WB countersuing. They really don’t have much to lose there.
I think it’s more likely that he’ll demand to settle or simply drop the lawsuit. Typical SLAPP behaviour.
CNN will likely try to have it dismissed because the legal fees will surely be astronomical.
“Hi, Comcast? Yeah, as far back as you got em.”
“Hey, Google? Yep, thanks bro.”
“Hey pornhub. Yeah, everything these IPs ever touched. Thanks.”
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Things have been so crazy I forgot about this. Thanks for the reminder, Mark Robinson.
“Calling the report reckless and defamatory” but not incorrect.
Actually he is. Calling something defamatory implies that the statement is false. The inverse is also true: if a statement is true, then it’s not defamation.
(source: I was hyperfixated on the Depp v. Heard trial)
Well… discovery should at least be entertaining.
He’s not planning to get that far… Just needs the optics a few weeks before the election and then, win or lose, will drop the case without going through discovery.
Can’t wait for whatever comes out in discovery.
It’s almost impossible to win a defamation lawsuit as a public person. This is just being used as a flimsy shield before the election to try to give his denials some credibility. The standard is so high that unless someone at CNN was recorded as admitting to making this up then this case won’t make it very far.
Bet, lets move on to discovery.
His public comments are equally as disgusting.
This will be an interesting court case.
If cnn can prove what they reported then he’s just digging a deeper hole.
If cnn can’t prove it they are in deep doggy doo doo.
Either way someone’s getting that doo-doo feces thrown all over the walls, the floor, the ceiling, and it will stink so bad
If cnn can’t prove it they are in deep doggy doo doo.
Not really. They came with the receipts, showing time after time that the commenter shared personal details and used indiosyncratic turns of phrase that Robinson repeated on public accounts and forums. They had a very reasonable belief that it was true, and never claimed more than that. In the US, for a public figure, that’s generally more than enough.
That’s foolish of him, because as defendants they now have standing to subpoena. He will be proven to be a weird fucking pervert in civil court.
Ah, the old Trumpian tactic of suing someone for telling the truth.
I’m betting Warner Bros. has more money and better lawyers than you, Mark.
What a dunderhead.
Please, that’s “Lt. Governor Black Nazi Dunderhead” to you.
