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Lawyers Offer to Represent Pro Bono The Latest Victims of Trump the Libel Bully

By Adalia Woodbury on Tue, Oct 25th, 2016 at 6:32 pm

Trump uses lawsuits to intimidate his critics into silence; now top lawyers promise to represent pro bono the latest victims of his libel bullying

Through most of his life, anyone who stands up to Donald Trump does so at their peril. Whether the person is an ex-wife or a victim of Trump’s so-called “university,” the Republican nominee uses lawsuits and the press to intimidate his detractors into silence. However, that threat ended when top lawyers promised to represent pro bono the latest victims of Trump’s libel bullying.

Trump’s arsenal of intimidation wasn’t restricted to lawsuits and using the media to libel his critics. As Frances Stead Sellers wrote earlier this year:

He deploys an array of tactics to fight back — countersuits, threats, and personal insults, among others — while using stringent confidentiality agreements to guard against insider accounts from employees, business partners, his former spouses and now his campaign staffers.

In 1999, Trump threatened to drag Marla Maples’ name through the mud and withhold alimony payments if she exposed facts that would damage his attempted bid for the presidency.

Tarla Makaeff is no stranger to Trump’s methods of silencing his detractors. Shortly after she filed a fraud suit against Trump “University” in 2010, Trump filed a “potentially ruinous” defamation suit.

Earlier this year, Trump attacked Makaeff who was a plaintiff in another suit against Trump University during one of his campaign rallies. She requested and obtained removal as a plaintiff in that case.

Trump even used his tried and true arsenal of intimidation to silence the America Bar Association.
Fearing Trump, Bar Association Stifles Report Calling Him a ‘Libel Bully’
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/us/politics/donald-trump-lawsuits-american-bar-association.html?_r=1

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Watch here:
msnbc 10/24/16
Lawyers offer Trump accusers free legal help
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/25/lawyers-offer-represent-pro-bono-latest-victims-trump-libel-bully.html


In 2012, 49% of Republicans believed that women who complain about sexual harassment do not cause more problems than they solve. Compare that to the 73% of Democrats who share that view.

In 2016, the majority of Republicans continue to believe that women who complain about sexual harassment cause more problems than they solve.

So when Trump calls the women who corroborate the statements he made in his “boy talk” confession “liars,” he is very much a Republican.

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http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/25/lawyers-offer-represent-pro-bono-latest-victims-trump-libel-bully.html