https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lawrence-odonnell-source-says-russian-oligarchs-co-signed-trumps-deutsche-bank-loans
He’s going off on Twitter about his former friend, Fox News, and how he’s the best thing to ever happen for PR. Oh! And Democrats want open borders. (They don’t) But not a peep about the no.1 trend on Twitter: #RussianCosigners LMAO
More Fake News.
“The Program and Tweet make the false and defamatory statements that ‘Russian oligarchs’ co-signed loans provided to Mr. Trump by Deutsche Bank, and described these ‘co-signers’ as ‘Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin,’” the letter reads.
Harder argues that the accusation is easily disproven and suggests the network neglected its due diligence out of a desire to tar a political enemy.
“The only borrowers under these loans are Trump entities, and Mr. Trump is the only guarantor,” the letter continues. “Numerous documents for each of these loans are also recorded, publicly available and searchable online. Thus, actual malice can easily be proven based on your reckless disregard of the truth and unreasonable reliance on an alleged ‘source’ who you will not even identify in your story and likely is seeking to mislead you and the public for political reasons or other ulterior motives.”
Trump threatening this type of legal action seems like the emptiest of threats. Following through would mean making public all sorts of financial information and documents that he has struggled to keep private.
I'm guessing NBC will not retract and Trump's legal team will not follow through in any meaningful way.
EDIT: O'Donnell did just tweet this (somewhat) retraction of sorts:
Last night I made an error in judgment by reporting an item about the president’s finances that didn’t go through our rigorous verification and standards process. I shouldn’t have reported it and I was wrong to discuss it on the air. I will address the issue on my show tonight.
Well that bank will never give out information so really anybody can say they are a source and say anything that can't be proven except to the democrat sheep that will buy the junk.
shareUmmmm yeah us democratic sheep...sorta like when Donald Trump was promoting the easily disprovable and racist birther theory that so many of his followers ate up with a spoon.
shareWhatever happened to those 'detectives' he was sending to Hawaii and was going to prove Obama was not a US citizen? He said he was going to reveal his proof in 'two weeks' - it's been at least six years.
I guess detectives Donnie Diapers and Eric 'Shortbus' came up with nothing but a Hawaiian vacation?
I can't believe it! A whole post without "T-rump"! Your kids.... I mean dogs must have told you it makes you look lie a 5th grader.
shareLooks like you've been triggered into a meltdown.
shareLol. Don't flatter yourself.
shareCall 'em as I see 'em. No flattery involved.
shareThen your "vision" is indeed that of a 5th grader.
shareIf you believe I'm a fifth grader, why are you communicating with me here? That's rather predatory and creepy to say the very least (yet typical Republican behavior).
shareBecause I love waiting to see how much more idiotic your next response will be. :)
shareDamn, so you communicate with whom you believe is a fifth grader for your own self-gratification?
That's really predatory and scary. You must be registered as a sex offender in your state. As a matter of fact, I do hope you are - for the sake of the children and parents in your community.
"Former friend, Fox News"? You mean he gave up on Faux News??? Whatever will poor Orange Head do now?
shareHe told his Trumpers to look for a new outlet, but really he's just pushing Fox News to ditch all the journalism and focus more on opinioners like Hannity and Pirro that don't do anything except fluff Trump's ego.
shareProbably anything owned by Sinclair Broadcasting maybe?
shareAssuming he actually intended to prop up another outlet, my money would be on One America News.
shareThat's what I'm thinking.
Or he's getting ready - using taxpayers dollars - to launch his own Fascist network once he leaves office in 2021. He will hire Jeanine Pirro, Lou Dobbs, and Tucky Carlson for starters.
Why don't you look at the independent research. It will show you Fox is WAY more unbiased than CNN, MSNBC, etc.
shareFox is republican establishment. CNN and MSNBC are democratic establishment.
Fox is only "unbiased" to Trump when he threatens a recession which affects Fox's bottom line. As long as there's no recession, Fox has his back. Fox has been pro-Trump for so long that is why Trump was dumbfounded by their recent criticism of him.
As much criticism Fox has given Trump (only recently), it does not compare to the criticism CNN and MSNBC give to Warren and Sanders.