Daily Beast is facing a potential lawsuit from RNC, Trump’s Campaign of the Ko-Menader
The Daily Beast Liberal News Website could soon face with a defamation lawsuit The Republican National Committee and former campaign manager Chris Lacivita took the Republican National Committee.
RNC and Lacivita believe that the Daily Beast slandered them in an October 2024 report, in which he reported that Lacivitian Trump had paid $ 22 million. RNC and Lacivitian say that the sum was smaller, and it was also used for things such as the campaign advertising, unlike the lacquer, which they claim that the Daily Beast “fake” proposed.
Axios First reported that RNC and Lacivita were preparing a defamation lawsuit against the Daily Beast -Ai noted that lawyers wrote three letters that received Fox News Digitaldemanding withdrawal of articles in the last few months.
Ex-trump campaign campaign manager. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
The Daily Beast stands according to his reporting, although she added a note to the editor -in -chief to the initial story, a recognizing article “wrongly reported that Lacivita received a total of $ 22 million” when a total of $ 19.2 million.
“The beast is advocating for money monitoring and accurately reports on LLC Lacivita, who received $ 19.2 million from Trump’s campaign, RNC -Ai related Super Pacs, according to public records,” said Daily Beast spokesman – and for Fox News Digital.
“We stand by our journalism and, if necessary, we will strongly defend ourselves,” the spokesman continued.
While the beast says that it stands on its journalism, the liberal newspaper organization has taken steps to resolve the temptation before the lawsuit is formally filed.
The first letter was sent from Geragos & Geragos’s law firm Daily Beast Neil Rosenhouse on November 5, 2024. This claimed that the initial report, along with the “recycled accusations” repeated in other daily stars, “the center around the false and defamatory claim” that RNC approved and Lacivita received, received a compensation of $ 22 million over two years for its role in Trump’s presidential campaign 2024.
The letter stated that RNC and Lacivite had reason to believe that Daily Beast had acted “with real wickedness.”
Three days after receiving the initial letter, the Daily Beast added the following note of the editor: “The original version of this article mistakenly reported that Lacivita received a total of $ 22 million from Trump’s campaign and associated PACS. The exact total amount is $ 19.2 million.
Chris Lacivita led the successful campaign of President Donald Trump 2024 with Susie Wiles. (Reuters)
The second letter came on November 12, 2024, when Geragos & Geragos told the Daily Beast, the editor’s note was “completely inadequate” and failed to correct the damage to the inflicted lacquer.
“The rest of the reporting remained basically the same, and despite the addition of the notes and corrections of the editors, it still falsely implies that Mr. Lacivita personally paid $ 19.2 million to Trump’s campaign for the advertising of the campaign,” the letter said.
“The editor’s note in the article explained that $ 22 million went to LLC Lacivito, not personally not eliminating the full slander message of the story – as shown by Mr. Lacivate as a deceptive pocket campaign for his personal gain and that he was on the edge Therefore, they ‘release’, the letter continued.
The third letter, sent on January 21, asked Daily Beast “immediately and permanently” removed the episode of Podcasta discussing the report.
Donald Trump waved supporters at West Palm Beach in Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
In response, the Daily Beast deleted the podcast segment, continuing to insist that “standing on his reporting”.
The following note was added to Podcast: “The beast deleted the segment that appeared in the original edition of this subcastic with award -winning journalist Michael Isikoff. Payments were detected, revealed in FEC Records, that a Republican strategist and Operational Chris Lacivita LCIVITA collected the Trump campaign and related to the interview.
RNC -AI lawyers demanded that Daily Beast preserve all documents and communications related to the story ahead of the “expected litigation”.
The Daily Beast refused a further comment.
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