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He is filing lawsuits against people who are criticizing his performance of his duties as a public official or his qualifications to serve as the president of the United States, and that’s the core of what the First Amendment is about.
He’s not winning these cases. The problem is that he’s figuring out this scheme to use the law as a weapon that kind of cuts the courts out.
— Lee Levine, a lawyer who has represented a wide range of news organizations, in comments given to POLITICO, concerning Donald Trump’s ongoing wave of litigation against the press. Trump has filed suit against the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Des Moines Register, and CNN, as well as the Pulitzer Prize board, and is seeking tens of billions of dollars.
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