Melania Trump Is Taking Down the Blogger Who Called Her an ‘Escort’

[Tom Joad]

Good for her!

Sue that piece of shit back to the Stone Age.

http://ijr.com/2017/01/788923-melani...llion-lawsuit/

There's good news for First Lady Melania Trump in her $150 million lawsuit against Maryland-based blogger, Webster Tarpley.

Politico reports that Mrs. Trump won the first round of the libel suit Friday, which was filed back in September after Tarpley published rumors on his blog that she was a “high-end escort.”
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Tarpley's lawyer, Danielle Giroux, argued during a two-hour long hearing at the Montgomery County Circuit Court that her client only claimed that there were rumors Mrs. Trump was an escort during her days as a model:

“He did not say that Melania Trump was a high-class escort. What he said was there are rumors about that. He's writing about the rumors and that, itself, is newsworthy."

But Trump's lawyer, Charles Harder, disagreed with the article's publication. He claimed that Tarpley had a responsibility to only report facts that had been verified, according to Politico.

“That's not how the law works. You can't print a rumor if it's not true and it damages or harms someone's reputation. That is textbook defamation.”

Tarpley called for the suit to be tossed out, but lost the battle at Friday's pretrial hearing.

NBC News reports that Maryland Judge Sharon Burrell has decided to move forward with the defamation lawsuit. Judge Burrell ruled:

“The court believes most people, when they hear the words 'high-end escort' that describes a prostitute. There could be no more defamatory statement than to call a woman a prostitute.”