Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
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It’s On: Fox News v. Dominion Voting Trial Begins in High-Stakes Defamation Case
thewrap.comFirst Amendment implications.Fox is accused of defaming Dominion’s immediately following the 2020 presidential election, when some of the network’s guests and hosts suggested that the Denver company’s voting machines had been hacked or compromised.
The network has stridently denied any wrongdoing, saying it was merely reporting what was being said by newsmakers – including Donald Trump and his shrinking circle of lawyers, including Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani – who were pushing the unfounded claims.Dominion scored a series of early victories in discovery and pre-trial filings, from embarrassing revelations about behind-the-scenes discord at the network’s promotion of zany election conspiracy theorists down to the sloppy “discovery misconduct” of Fox’s lawyers on the eve of trial.
Those issues may have prompted Judge Eric Davis to delay the trial from its original Monday start.Witnesses will include a who’s-who of Fox News heavies, from C-suiters including Rupert Murdoch to top hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.
Documents and depositions released by Dominion during pre-trial motions showed Fox leaders openly scoffing at election fraud claims being aired on the network, an important building block for the Denver-based voting machine company’s proof of the “actual malice” standard required for defamation.The Supreme Court set the standard in 1964 with the landmark New York Times vs.
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