{"id":23094,"date":"2016-10-13T15:18:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=23094"},"modified":"2016-10-13T15:18:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:18:49","slug":"basic-standards-of-human-decency-vs-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/basic-standards-of-human-decency-vs-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Standards of Human Decency vs. Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, Michele Obama&#8217;s full speech earlier today:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JGeiuCPs6xA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You know two news outlets have produced confirming evidence of actual sexual assault by Donald Trump. So, naturally, Trump intends to sue.<\/p>\n<p>But, <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/experts-trump-s-legal-threat-against-ny-times-reporting-alleged-sexual-assault-pure-loser\/213822\">this from Media Matters:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump\u2019s threats to The New York Times for reporting allegations that he committed sexual assault are legally far-fetched and provide a troubling portrait of how a Trump administration would handle the press, according to experts interviewed by Media Matters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Several experts tell Media Matters his latest threats of legal action against the Times are further evidence of what would likely be a problematic relationship between the press and Trump if he were to be elected president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just confirms how difficult he would be with the press and how he would view the press as an enemy,\u201d George Freeman, Media Law Resource Center executive director and former New York Times assistant legal counsel, said about the latest attack. \u201cIt would be a very contentious relationship in all probability, particularly in that his whole character is built on beating up anyone who attacks him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Freeman of the Media Law Resource Center called the legal claim \u201ca pure loser.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s all bluster,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it\u2019s not surprising given that he is always threatening litigation. As a presidential candidate, he would have to prove actual malice. \u2026 It seems to me it would be virtually impossible for Trump to even come close to showing the Times had serious doubts about the claims of groping when the women seem so credible and it was confirmed and substantiated by many other people they had spoken to.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more about that <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/experts-trump-s-legal-threat-against-ny-times-reporting-alleged-sexual-assault-pure-loser\/213822\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, Michele Obama&#8217;s full speech earlier today: You know two news outlets have produced confirming evidence of actual sexual assault by Donald Trump. So, naturally, Trump intends to sue. But, this from Media Matters: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump\u2019s threats to The New York Times for reporting allegations that he committed sexual assault are legally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/basic-standards-of-human-decency-vs-donald-trump\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Basic Standards of Human Decency vs. Donald Trump<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[947,772,2239,1754,1100],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-60u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}