"You can sue the Pope for bastardy if you swear out a cost bond." -- W.H. "Toby" Sides, Memphis State University law professor, R.I.P., emphasizing that you can sue anyone for anything. Proving your case is something else. New York Times v. Sullivan and progeny protect "The Apprentice" filmmaker's rights. Hypocritical DONALD JOHN TRUMP is my definition of a "snowflake," always threatening lawsuits and hardly ever wins. What a beastly bore. From The New York Times:
Trump Calls Cannes Biopic ‘Garbage’ and Says He Plans to Sue
The director of “The Apprentice” was unfazed by the threat to the film, which covers the ex-president’s relationships with his first wife and the fixer Roy Cohn.
The day after the Cannes Film Festival premiered “The Apprentice,” a biopic of Donald J. Trump, the former president hit back at the movie, calling it “malicious defamation” and threatening legal action.
“This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked,” said Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Trump campaign.
Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by the author Gabriel Sherman, “The Apprentice” follows Trump (Sebastian Stan) as an ambitious young man seeking to establish himself as a real estate magnate. He finds a mentor in the wily lawyer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong) and a first wife in the fashion model Ivana Zelnickova (Maria Bakalova), though Trump is willing to discard both once they’re no longer of use to him.
The film is hardly a flattering portrait of the former president, and includes scenes where the business mogul goes under the knife for liposuction and a scalp procedure to fix his bald spot. In its most controversial sequence, the Trump character sexually assaults his wife after she criticizes his looks. (Ivana, who died in 2022, accused Trump of rape in her divorce deposition, though she disavowed the claim later.)
Cheung said the Trump team plans to file a lawsuit “to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers.”
Though the threat could affect the release of “The Apprentice,” which currently has no distributor, Abbasi sounded unfazed at the film’s news conference on Tuesday.
“Everybody talks about him suing a lot of people,” the director said. “They don’t talk about his success rate, though.”
Kyle Buchanan is a pop culture reporter and also serves as The Projectionist, the awards season columnist for The Times. More about Kyle Buchanan
The day after the Cannes Film Festival premiered “The Apprentice,” a biopic of Donald J. Trump, the former president hit back at the movie, calling it “malicious defamation” and threatening legal action.
“This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked,” said Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Trump campaign.
Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by the author Gabriel Sherman, “The Apprentice” follows Trump (Sebastian Stan) as an ambitious young man seeking to establish himself as a real estate magnate. He finds a mentor in the wily lawyer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong) and a first wife in the fashion model Ivana Zelnickova (Maria Bakalova), though Trump is willing to discard both once they’re no longer of use to him.
The film is hardly a flattering portrait of the former president, and includes scenes where the business mogul goes under the knife for liposuction and a scalp procedure to fix his bald spot. In its most controversial sequence, the Trump character sexually assaults his wife after she criticizes his looks. (Ivana, who died in 2022, accused Trump of rape in her divorce deposition, though she disavowed the claim later.)
Cheung said the Trump team plans to file a lawsuit “to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers.”
Though the threat could affect the release of “The Apprentice,” which currently has no distributor, Abbasi sounded unfazed at the film’s news conference on Tuesday.
“Everybody talks about him suing a lot of people,” the director said. “They don’t talk about his success rate, though.”
Kyle Buchanan is a pop culture reporter and also serves as The Projectionist, the awards season columnist for The Times. More about Kyle Buchanan
Trump is rich trash. Many of his stupid supporters poor trash. He wouldn't give them a job wiping asses even if he had no hands. Many of them went to jail over his lies. He used them like ass paper.
ReplyDelete