TURNING THE TABLES: GOP CONSULTANT SUES DONALD TRUMP AND COREY LEWANDOWSKI FOR LIBEL

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4/18/2016

Turning The Tables: GOP Consultant Sues Donald Trump and Corey Lewandowski For Libel

Filed under: General — Dana @ 7:23 pm

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Oh, irony. GOP consultant Cheri Jacobus decided she didn’t need to wait for Donald Trump to “open up those libel laws,” and instead filed her own defamation lawsuit against both Donald Trump and Corey Lewandowski:

The suit, brought in New York County by communications strategist Cheri Jacobus, seeks $4 million in damages as well as unspecified punitive damages and court costs. It alleges that Trump and campaign manager Corey Lewandowski falsely and knowingly impugned her professional reputation in retaliation for her criticisms of Trump’s performance as a candidate.

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The complaint stems from comments Lewandowski and Trump made in late January and early February following Jacobus’ January 26 assertion on CNN that Trump, in interviews and debates, “comes off like a third grader faking his way through an oral report on current affairs.”

 

The next day, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Lewandowski said that Jacobus “came to the office on multiple occasion trying to get a job from the Trump campaign, and she wasn’t hired clearly she went off and was upset by that.”