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Musk Decides to Pay Trump $10M to Settle a Lawsuit -- that Twitter had Already Won but was on Appeal [1]
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Date: 2025-02-15
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If that’s not a Billionaire kick-back, I don’t what is.
As Popok with Legal AF explains, including the lawyerly insight that Trump’s Appeal had little chance to being successful , based on established First Amendment precedents.
But hey, what’s $10 Million dollars between ‘ partners in crime ’ ‘partners in Guvmint Demolition’ …
SECRET Trump $200 Million SHAKEDOWN SCHEME Revealed
MeidasTouch: Legal AF — Feb 15, 2025
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Here’s the CNN report on this Trump 2.0 “new normal” News … citing a few key excerpts:
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Trump first sued Twitter and Jack Dorsey, the company’s CEO at the time, in July 2021, arguing that his speech was being unfairly censored.
[...] In May 2022, Judge James Donato of the US District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the lawsuit. He said Twitter did not infringe on Trump’s First Amendment rights to free speech. Trump appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, where the case was pending. [...] Last month, Trump signed a settlement agreement to end a similar lawsuit he brought against Meta, after the company had suspended his account on its platform in the aftermath of the January 6 riot. According to the preliminary draft of the settlement, Meta is required to pay out roughly $25 million – of which $22 million would go toward a fund for Trump’s presidential library.
Seems that Zuck doesn’t want to be left-out of the Trump Insider clubhouse.
And is ready to pay the ‘price of admission’ too. What a steal: just a cool $25M.
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Just another day in the American Oligarchy, wheel-greasing neighborhood.
Which is looking more like Putin’s network of insider elites, with every new Democracy-dwindling day.
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