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Republicans Threaten Lawsuits Over TV Ads Linking Them To Donald Trump

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Rather interesting don't ya think? SOME GOP candidates see a connection with the candidate of their party as a defamation.

Republicans Threaten Lawsuits Over TV Ads Linking Them To Donald TrumpJust two weeks before Election Day, five Republicans ― Reps. Bob Dold (R-Ill.), Mike Coffman (R-Colo.), David Jolly (R-Fla.), John Katko (R-N.Y.) and Brian Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania Republican running for an open seat that’s currently occupied by his brother ― contend that certain commercials paid for by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee provide false or misleading information by connecting them to the GOP nominee.

Trump is so terrible, these Republicans are essentially arguing, that tying them to him amounts to defamation.
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and sad to say, they actually have a case. The five candidates have all said they don't like Trump, often after earlier being quoted they would support their party's candidate.

So those nasty Democrats are simply libeling Republicans candidates when they call the candidate a "Trump supporter", and I thought the Donald was winning by such a huuuge margin that every Republican was following him.
Fitzpatrick has also had his lawyer draft a cease and desist letter, taking issue with an ad that says the candidate “supports Donald Trump and his dangerous agenda for women.” While Fitzpatrick doesn’t refute claims that he wants to defund Planned Parenthood, his lawyer said that branding him as a Trump supporter threatens “substantial and immediate harm to the campaign and Mr. Fitzpatrick’s personal reputation.
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Somerville said:
Rather interesting don't ya think? SOME GOP candidates see a connection with the candidate of their party as a defamation.



and sad to say, they actually have a case. The five candidates have all said they don't like Trump, often after earlier being quoted they would support their party's candidate.

So those nasty Democrats are simply libeling Republicans candidates when they call the candidate a "Trump supporter", and I thought the Donald was winning by such a huuuge margin that every Republican was following him.
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I can understand why they're pissed off, but the Republican Party has not disavowed Trump, they belong to the Republican Party, so as my dear old sweet Grandma would say: tough titties.
 
They're in the same party, case closed. They don't like it, join another party or go independent or better yet, allow this country to improve and drop out of government altogether. Oh and stop acting like they're the same as Reagan *just because he was in the same party* In fact, their endless circle jerk over Reagan is more absurd than any association with Trump, since the former was in office *30 years ago*
 
Cardinal said:
I can understand why they're pissed off, but the Republican Party has not disavowed Trump, they belong to the Republican Party, so as my dear old sweet Grandma would say: tough titties.
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My grandma said that too. We might be cousins. LOL!
 
No, they actually don't have a case. That belated political convenience compelled them to express their "dislike" of Trump has no bearing to their past record on him, and more importantly, to their party association.

What an absurd notion that stalwarts partisans are objecting to people associating them with their party and its nominee. Republicans have become so habituated on misinformation and denialism that they lost the ability to think rationally. They literally altered their cognition immutably.
 
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