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Wed Aug 21, 2024, 05:32 AM Aug 2024

Donald Trump Threatens To Sue Lincoln Project For Aggravated Streisand Effect [View all]

https://abovethelaw.com/2024/08/donald-trump-threatens-to-sue-lincoln-project-for-aggravated-streisand-effect/

Donald Trump Threatens To Sue Lincoln Project For Aggravated Streisand Effect

I'm not mad. Please don't let them put in the paper that I got mad

By LIZ DYE
on August 20, 2024 at 4:46 PM

Donald Trump, the king of earned media, is once again providing free publicity to the Lincoln Project.

The Trump campaign and its stable of amazing lawyers fired off a round of cease and desist letters to various media outlets who are running a Lincoln Project ad called “Failure” that needles campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita along with Trump’s pollster Tony Fabrizio for failing to anticipate President Biden’s withdrawal from the race.

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Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson, who has also been around the block once or twice, was delighted, and made a beeline to the show’s YouTube channel to invite the campaign to stick its C&D in the candidate’s “fetid orange ass.”

“You can send every lawyer letter you want. You will never take us to court,” Wilson taunted the former president. “If you sue us, we’ll get in there and we’ll start talking about where all the money goes in the Trump campaign. Because you and I both know, Donald, that you are skimming off enormous percentages of the cash from your campaign. We know it. You know it.”

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