Can’t wait for discovery
…and when he shows up in court, drunk.
He will ask to “plead the fifth” then take out a bottle of vodka
“Plead the fifth” not “drink a fifth”
When his bottle is empty, I bet he pleads for more
Was gonna say. Discovery will be a huge self own.
It’ll never get that far. The goal is to run up the defendant’s legal fees as punishment for their reporting.
It can though, the Atlantic can counter sue for violating the first amendment and demand their attorneys fees
They don’t need to prove that he’s missing work, drunk all the time and that his job is on the chopping block. They don’t have to prove anything. The onus is on Patel to prove that they acted with actual malice which means that either they knew the information was false or had good reason to suspect their information was wrong (besides his denial and threats) and printed it anyway.
Yes, proving those statements were all truth is an absolute defense to defamation, but they only need to defend themselves from the accusation of absolute malice.
Given they attributed everything that said to various (and many) different sources in multiple departments of the government, it seems clear that the only way that that is happening is if they made up these quotes wholecloth, if had reason to think a dozen plus government employees both in and outside of his department are giving false witness about him, or if they have in the possession overwhelming evidence that the witnesses are mistaken. Good luck proving that.
They don’t need to do much but let Patel drag this story through court, bring more attention to it, and coast off of the publicity.
Guess he believes the rumors that Trump is openly discussing firing him. Like Bondi at her hearing, with Trump the only move is to double down.
But I expect the suit will be withdrawn before discovery, Patel knows he has a solid 3-6 months of typical court deadlines and briefing before that happens.
with Trump the only move is to double down.
clearly, you forget the triple- and quadruple-down, and then the TACO
And doing whatever Putin and Netanyahu tell him to do.
Bondi needs to still testify about Epstein
Yes. I was referencing her last performance where she ignored every question to answer about the stock market, but agree, she needs to get dragged right back.
Political appointees to government positions should be jailed for 20 years for filing SLAPP suits.
LOL good luck with that drunky.
hah ! get ready for some Barbra Streisand
