On the 24th, Trump released a video (shown below, left) stating he would donate $5 million dollars to the charity of the President's choice if he provided his college applications and records as well as his passport records by October 31st to the billionaire's satisfaction. On October 22nd, 2012, Trump asserted he would be making a "very big" revelation about the president within two days. He continued to question President Obama's birth certificate throughout 2012, tweeting on August 6th, 2012 that the produced certificate was a fraud.Īn 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that barackobama's birth certificate is a fraud.- Donald J. In March 2011, while exploring to make a bid for the Republican nomination for the 2012 presidential election, Trump began looking into the validity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate, stating that the "Certification of Live Birth" the White House released did not bear a signature of authenticity. He served one term as president before losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden. In November 2016, Trump became the President-elect of the United States after winning the 2016 general election in an upset victory against his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. Michael Moore in TrumpLand Speech Remixesĭonald Trump, born J(age 74), is an American entrepreneur and TV personality best known for his celebrity billionaire status, as portrayed in the hit NBC reality show The Apprentice, and advocacy of extremely conservative political beliefs.The Epoch Times requested comment from Michael Maggiano, the attorney representing plaintiffs Michael Cisneros, Alex Hanson, Erica McKenna, and Daniel McKenna. “Thus, the video’s references to ‘fake news’ and its depiction of race relations, however distorted, are clearly newsworthy and, thus, the plaintiffs are not afforded the protections of CRL §§50 and 51,” the judge added, referring to the relevant New York civil law statutes. “It is common knowledge that one of the principal tactics of Trump’s presidential campaigns, as well as his presidency, was to incessantly attack the mainstream media as purveyors of ‘fake news’, including his claim that the media exaggerates the extent of racial division in this country,” Cohen wrote. The judge concurred with the defendants that the video is newsworthy and thus protected against some of the plaintiffs’ claims. The Trump campaign argued that the meme was a parody that “unequivocally involves a topic of significant public concern.” The campaign further argued that the video is protected because it was satirical and was not directed at any of the plaintiffs.īoth Cook and Trump argued that the use of the video is protected by the First Amendment and that the plaintiff’s action was a strategic lawsuit against public participation, among other arguments. The parents also alleged that Cook and Trump intentionally and negligently inflicted emotional duress and breached their duty to act reasonably. 17, 2020, alleging that Cook and the Trump campaign violated a New York civil law by using the video for advertising purposes without consent, thereby inflicting pain and mental anguish. The parents of the toddlers in the video filed a lawsuit on Sept. Cook continued to share the video on other platforms, including Instagram. On June 23, 2020, Twitter banned Cook, who went by the moniker Carpe Donktum, from its platform. It was viewed 20 million times before Twitter removed it in response to copyright violation complaints. Trump shared the meme on Twitter on June 18, 2020. Only you can prevent fake news dumpster fires.” The video ends with text reading: “America is not the problem… Fake news is. The screen then fades to black and a message reading “what actually happened” after which an unedited video in which the toddlers hug in the end appears. The idea of the meme was to show how the media manipulate the truth to attack Trump and Trump voters. The meme in question used a video of one toddler running away from another overlain with a CNN logo and chyrons reading “Terrified Toddler Runs From Racist Baby” and “Racist Baby Probably a Trump Voter.” New York State Supreme Court Judge David Cohen granted motions to dismiss the case brought by the Trump campaign and by Logan Cook, a prolific creator of viral memes who supports Trump. A New York judge dismissed on July 7 a lawsuit filed against a prominent meme creator by the parents of two toddlers, footage of whom was used in a meme shared by then-President Donald Trump in 2020.
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