Tone Defamation

 Sorry, but didn't we already cover this? 

Defamation: noun the action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or libel.

Damaging the good reputation of someone like, say, the leader of the MAGAts. A man who is a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist. A man who has been found guilty of libel himself for defaming the victim of that sexual assault. That made him liable for a five million dollar payment. 

Which is probably why he felt it necessary to go after ABC News for fifteen million dollars, plus an additional one million dollars in legal fees in connection with the "defamation" suit he filed because he didn't like the implication that he was a rapist. The price tag for not making a distinction between being found guilty for sexual battery and defamation? Sixteen million dollars. 

The price tag for the conviction on sexual battery and defamation? Five million dollars. 

"I may be a lot of things, but I'm no rapist."

ABC News will pay the million dollar court fees, and make a donation to to a presidential foundation and museum for the absurd legacy of the leader of the Second Trumpreich. 

At this moment, feel free to discuss among yourselves how you would spend fifteen million dollars for a library dedicated to a man who does not read.

I want to make sure you caught that distinction. I did not state that the former game show host and convicted felon cannot read. I said he does not read. That could be by choice, to avoid pernicious thoughts or ideas getting into his head. 

Like the idea that fifteen  million dollars might go a short way into making the lives of those he has harmed over the past several decades. Instead of constructing a warehouse where old copies of The Art of the Deal and Lee Greenwood bibles can be stored. 

That was sarcasm. Not defamation.