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Originally Posted by station
I haven't really been paying much attention to his speeches lately cause it's exhausting and painful to listen to. Honest question though, isn't the stuff he's saying now about the Clintons actual slander? Criminals, criminal activity, massive cover up, media working for them, blaming for basically every world conflict, etc. Not that they will sue him anyway but I still find it incredible that you could be that hypocritical.
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It's tough. As I noted earlier about the NYT article, in the US, the requirement for libel against a public figure is 'actual malice', which means knowingly saying things that aren't true, or saying them with reckless disregard for the truth. In Trump's case, he's largely citing conspiracy theories that exist elsewhere, and it wouldn't be hard for him to plead that since they're already out in the public record, he had no reason to dismiss them. It would be a lot easier to make the case against the websites that are publishing the theories (but a poor tradeoff for the Clintons, as it would look even more like a coverup).