{"id":38025,"date":"2020-01-22T18:46:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T23:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38025"},"modified":"2020-01-22T18:46:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T23:46:52","slug":"this-is-getting-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38025","title":{"rendered":"This Is Getting Ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, this isn’t a post about impeachment (although that, too, is getting ridiculous). Scott Johnson posted an article today at Power Line Blog<\/a> about a lawsuit brought by Representative Tulsi Gabbard against Hillary Clinton. This is interesting–a few years ago, no one would have dared bring a lawsuit against the ‘powerful’ Clinton family.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has sued Madam Hillary Clinton for defamation in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Gabbard\u2019s press release is posted online here<\/a>; Gabbard\u2019s Complaint is posted online here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clinton defamed Gabbard as a \u201cRussian asset\u201d in a statement that did not call her out by name, though I don\u2019t think there can be any doubt that Clinton\u2019s statement was \u201cof and concerning\u201d Gabbard. Identification of the plaintiff in the defamatory statement is of course an essential element of the cause of action for slander or libel. Gabbard\u2019s Complaint addresses the issue in paragraph 28 et seq.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is the statement that Gabbard is a \u201cRussian asset\u201d protected as a statement of opinion (rather than one of fact)? I hope not. See generally Complaint paragraphs 26-46.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Complaint recites Gabbard\u2019s request for a retraction from Clinton. Madam Hillary has declined to retract. See Complaint paragraphs 23-25.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

In the second sentence of her Complaint Gabbard asserts: \u201cTulsi Gabbard is running<\/strong>
\nfor President of the United States, a position Clinton has long coveted, but has not been able to attain.\u201d I look forward to checking out Clinton\u2019s response on this point when she files her Answer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let the good times roll.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is interesting because it puts Hillary Clinton in the spotlight (not in a positive way) at a time when some of the Democrats running for President are sidelined by the impeachment. There is still some conventional wisdom that sees a brokered Democrat convention with Hillary Clinton emerging as the candidate. The next six months are going to be very interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, this isn’t a post about impeachment (although that, too, is getting ridiculous). Scott Johnson posted an article today at Power Line Blog about a lawsuit brought by Representative Tulsi Gabbard against Hillary Clinton. This is interesting–a few years ago, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1457,3909,8619,8203,5276,12250,7743],"class_list":["post-38025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-lawsuit","tag-libel","tag-power-line-blog","tag-scott-johnson","tag-tulsi-gabbard","tag-united-states-district-court-for-the-southern-district-of-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38026,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38025\/revisions\/38026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}