• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    Oh, that’ll get spicy.

    If there’s anything to this story, and fuck knows, there certainly is, the last thing Robinson wants is to get into a trial against an organization that has evidence and a soapbox big enough for a herd of elephants to trumpet from.

    What a fucking moron.

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      It doesn’t matter.

      Nothing will happen before the election, and until then he can spin it as suing CNN for spreading lies or something, and get away with it with 0 penalty.

      It’s a mildly clever stalling tactic.

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        I wouldn’t say zero penalty; his poll numbers are shit. They were before the story leaked, but nobody seems to be Teflon the way Trump is. He’s possibly tanking North Carolina down ballot, and could even flip the state for Kamala. His political career is surely finished. It would have been before now if the GOP had their way, they tried really hard to get him to drop out.

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          Although I do love that CNN dropped this bombshell within something like 18 hours of the deadline for him to drop out.

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            I’ve heard rumors that it was leaked by the GOP specifically to get him to drop out before it was too late, but he’s a stubborn Trumper, so I hope they’re enjoying the beast they created.

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              If that’s true, I’m glad it came back to bite them in the ass. They’re reaping what they sowed with years of MAGA.

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      I’ve said this elsewhere but I expect the suit will be dropped after the election because he doesn’t have a leg to stand on. This is simply a desperate attempt at damage control as his campaign continues to tank.

      Everyone remotely competent quit the Monday following CNN’s story about Robinson’s past internet activities came out. His campaign manager is now Jack Burkman, who you might know as Jacob Wohl’s fellow idiot and long-time partner in crime. The two of them have made multiple comically inept attempts to frame public figures for fictitious sexual assaults, including in October 2018 against U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, in April 2019 against 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, and in April 2020 against White House Coronavirus Task Force member Anthony Fauci.

      So it’s not surprising he’s convinced Robinson to file a frivolous lawsuit against CNN.

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        His campaign manager is now Jack Burkman, who you might know as Jacob Wohl’s fellow idiot and long-time partner in crime.

        Imagine being such a dimwitted moron that you try to run a smear campaign but accidentally write fanfics about the candidates. “Warren is a cougar who rides so hard she hospitalized a marine.”

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      It won’t get that far. This is one of those it’s cheaper to file a lawsuit than do a publicity blitz scenarios. He will drop the lawsuit, probably sometime after the election.

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    Whats the old phrase originally meant for news papers… Don’t pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. Same thing here just different format.

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      The article doesn’t make it sound like the direction he’s actually taking, but he could potentially sue for defamation, since they’re attributing the messages to him, which he denies is true, and the messages have had a pretty apparent negative effect on him. Seems like he’s suing for leaking his PII instead though, so I guess he’s doubling down on the notion that someone apparently went through a lot of effort to fake everything.

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      He initially claimed it was AI. And when he was asked how faked messages could be put on archived web pages, he made a sort of “they have ways of doing these things” statement.

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      I think the idea from the article was that all the info in the profile had been previously breached and leaked, so anyone could have made the profile

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    My guy thinks he can sue a major media outlet into silence.

    I mean, it did work for Twitter to get one of its advertisers back, so we’ll see… 😅

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      The fact that they’re dumb as fuck to be able to fall for the people who want to take their rights away is why their I’ve of the good ones.

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    The Republican candidate for North Carolina governor accused the outlet of leaking his information, while refusing to admit it was his information

    I don’t say this often, but lol

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    This will never go to discovery, else proving this perverts perviness. No, Clayton Bigsby just wants the “I’m fighting this” press coverage. GUARANTEED he will drop this suit right after the election.