is a bigger, i m sorry to put it in these terms because i feel i m like casting a movie about it or something but you saying it is a disadvantage that he lies so much i feel like it is the first time i have heard that in seven years. the ability to lie without shame and without any sort of tell, without any sort of remorse about it whatsoever, and about even the most important things has always seemed like a political super power to him. you ve turned it into the opposite by virtue of the court system. he has revived defamation law. donald trump single handedly. e. jean, let me ask you one last question here. i was struck by what you said about trump s latest comments on cnn and i know you didn t watch them live which somehow gives me great comfort. but you said his words wound people. you used the plural there. not that they wound me or this is a way to wound women. you re talking about i m just struck by your use of the word people there plural. what did you mean by that?
to treat donald trump like any other candidate, then it was a ghastly misjudgment and terribly naive. as we said over and over and over again, this is not a normal candidate. we re talking about an indicted, twice-impeached, coup-plotting sexual abuser who is known for his verbal incontinence and his ability to use forums like this and turn them into fire hoses of disinformation and they did it anyway. so it was either cynical or it was incredibly naive. andrew weissmann, the fox-dominion trial taught us so many important things about defamation law. one, that it is very hard to prevail. as a former republican, i thought it was just as interesting that the discovery process showed us what the culture was like inside. and my read on the final determination of what led fox to settle and to part ways with tucker carlson was the
politics but are you seeing the behavior that lines up a little bit, one a company that is in that business, the other a jury having such a sizable financial punishment for that kind of conduct? well, both of these recent suits give us a chance to take a really close look at this constitutional standard that we have in defamation and give us a chance to think about this really quite new phenomenon of attempting to use defamation law as a tool for battling sort of wider problems of wider societal lies, in one instance defamation problems and two pushing back against accusers in the me too movement. and both of them seem to have been quite successful uses of defamation in that respect. and they re particularly
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