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  • floo@retrolemmy.com
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    She’s legally in the clear because Trump is an adjudicated rapist. It’s only slander/liable if the claims are untrue.

    This isn’t about winning the case, they just want to force her to spend a gigantic amount of money on a legal defense that will drag on for years and which Trump can use to smear AOC.

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      This isn’t about winning the case,

      he doesn’t have one. if he was never in office, never ran for office, never was on tv, never was the ‘face’ of an ‘international brand’, and never was a public figure…perhaps. but the bar for him because he is those things is extraordinary high, and this ain’t even close.

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        CBS settled because a corrupt Trump administration could have cost them far more through acts of revenge. Settling was the cost of doing business. AOC doesn’t have any business interests a hostile, weaponised government could harm, so unless the legal system has been corrupted to the point where the government could charge her with libel (or treason or terrorism or anything else; at this point, there is no longer meaning, only power) because they say so, she has a solid defence.

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        AOC isn’t currently trying to get the FTC to approve of a multi billion dollar media conglomerate merger. Had that not been the case, CBS could have easily won against Trump. They also didn’t actually admit legal culpability. It was just a $16 million shakedown, and everyone knows it was total bullshit.

        AOC doesn’t have that kind of liability. Of course, she would have more difficulty in paying lawyers fees, for a legal case that would likely drag out for years.

        • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world
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          I mean, she doesn’t have to last too many years, she only needs to last long enough for either the fascists to be voted out or for her to arrested by said fascists as a political enemy.