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A Long List Of All The People And Things Donald Trump Has Threatened To Sue Since Running For President
You’re sued! Or not.

10/26/2016 08:24 am ET | Updated 55 minutes ago
Ryan Grim Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post

Donald Trump sat down with a local television station in Florida at the weekend and turned to one of his favorite topics: lawsuits. And, particularly, how hard it is to win them against the press.

“In England, you have a good chance of winning,” the GOP presidential nominee said. “They have a system where you can actually sue if somebody says something wrong. Our press is allowed to say whatever they want and they can get away with it.”

The press are far from alone, though, on Trump’s list of lawsuit targets he finds out of reach. Lately, he’s taken to threatening every woman who comes forward with an allegation that he sexually assaulted them. Trump uses the threat of a lawsuit more than any other politician in recent history as a tactic against his opponents, or anyone else who he feels has wronged him, though he’s rarely followed through on it.

Below is a partial list that we hope to make comprehensive of folks whom Trump has threatened to sue since he ran for president. If you’ve been on the receiving end of a threat, or know of some person or group who was, email me at [e-mail] and we’ll add it to the list.

Meanwhile, enjoy this fabulous Trump clock, which counts the amount of time since he last threatened to sue anybody.

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The New York Times

Trump said he was going to sue the Times for publishing details about his tax returns. Lawyers laughed off the threat, and he never followed up on it.

America

If he loses the election and feels he was wronged, Trump has vowed to sue.

Women who accuse him of sexual assault

Trump used his address in Gettysburg over the weekend to say that one of his first acts as president will be to sue all of the many women who are accusing him publicly of sexual assault or harassment. The threat is unlikely to be acted upon, but it serves to intimidate other women from coming forward. It doesn’t appear to be working, as new women who say he assaulted them emerge nearly every day.

Ted Cruz

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was not a natural-born citizen, Trump argued, and therefore ineligible to run for president. Trump suggested he’d sue to keep him off the ballot.

The Republican National Committee

Trump warned officials at the RNC they would be “in default of their pledge” if they didn’t step in and tell Cruz to play nice with him. He also threatened to sue the RNC over delegate allocation in Louisiana, because he’d been outmaneuvered on the ground by opponents.

Tony Schwartz

The author of The Art of the Deal told The New Yorker that Trump is a cretin who shouldn’t get anywhere near the White House. Trump threatened to sue.

The Washington Post

At a rally in February, Trump turned to his favorite topic: the media. “If I become president, oh, do they have problems. They’re gonna have such problems,” Trump said of The New York Times, before speaking in more general terms.

“One of the things I’m gonna do … is I’m gonna open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. We’re gonna open up those libel laws,” he said. “So that when The New York Times writes a hit piece which is a total disgrace, or when The Washington Post … writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money, instead of having no chance of winning because they’re totally protected.”

People magazine

It was actually Melania Trump who threatened People, but her husband would no doubt be along for the ride.

An anti-Trump T-shirt maker

Trump sent a cease-and-desist letter to a company producing T-shirts that made fun of Trump.

A British student nightclub

This month, a couple of mates put together a poster depicting Trump as a scary joker. He didn’t laugh and threatened to sue.

Univision

“I’m right now suing Univision for $500 million,” Trump said in July 2015, while attacking a Telemundo reporter. He filed the lawsuit after Univision dropped his beauty pageants in response to his remarks about Mexicans being rapists, which Univision said “destroyed the value” of his brand. They settled for undisclosed terms.

José Andrés

He sued the celebrity chef for cutting ties with him in the wake of Trump’s Mexican rapist comments.

Club for Growth

The conservative group tried to galvanize the #NeverTrump movement with a million dollars’ worth of ads against him during the GOP primary. He’ll see you in court, Club for Growth. (Actually, no, he won’t.)

A British artist

Ilma Gore’s sketch of Trump with a tiny penis earned her a different kind of legal threat. He didn’t order a takedown, but rather said he wanted a piece of the action if the artwork sold.

The Associated Press

For a story he didn’t like.

John Kasich

Watch Kasich squirm —- if he is not truthful in his negative ads I will sue him just for fun!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 20, 2015

The Huffington Post and Rolling Stone

I had forgotten about this one and, when I stumbled on it, was surprised to realize I had actually replied in real time to it. As I recall, he was tweeting about us in the middle of NCAA basketball.

As dishonest as @RollingStone is I say @HuffingtonPost is worse. Neither has much money - sue them and put them out of business!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 7, 2015

.@realDonaldTrump @RollingStone @HuffingtonPost Shouldn’t you be watching basketball? Give it a rest, guy.
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) April 7, 2015

Bill Maher

A lot of readers are reminding us of the time Trump threatened to sue Bill Maher to claim a $5 million reward for proving he himself was not sired by an orangutan. That was in 2013, before this presidential bid, but here’s the background just for fun.



Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.


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