“It was never our intent that the publication of the 2000 Mules film and book would harm Mr. Andrews,” Salem said in a Friday statement.
BS. It was exactly your intent to harm him and put the fear of the mob into anyone who stood up for the truth.
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"No we did not intend to harm him! We just wanted money and did not care that viewers would obviously target him based on lies!"
People should know about Roy Cohn. He was Trump's legal mentor until he was diagnosed with AIDS; then Trump disowned him.
Cohn made himself rich and powerful by going after Communists during the 1940s and 1950s. He was Joe McCarthy's henchman and sent Ethel Rosenberg to the gas chamber.
His legal strategy was always attack, attack, attack. He's the one who taught Trump that you could get things cheaper by refusing to pay and then going to court. Most small businesses don't have the resources to go against a rich guy.
They have put the idea out there, and now they can claim that they can't show the movie because of 'government censorship.'
Classic Cohn move.
They should be forced to pay for, produce, and distribute “65 million fools” movie
The President Drink Bleach bankruptcy continues. This is sweet news! Let's keep it coming.
Salem Media is a fully evil enterprise hell bent on destroying these United States.
It is way past time to say "fuck your goddamn free speech!" and start arresting and imprisoning agent provocateurs who deliberately spread blatant lies to push political agendas. These people are enemies of the state, stochastic terrorists, anti-American activists, and are the very thing that the US President is sworn to defend the country from.
And any of you who say "but we have to defend free speech even for the Nazis" are equally culpable and should join them in prison AFAIC so dont even bother trying to hand me that fucking bullshit. It's equivalent to saying trump shouldnt be prosecuted because you might be alao if you commit crimes.
Like all Republican conservatives they’re just sorry they got caught.
Fuck dinesh D's cum bag
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Salem Media Group, the right-wing talk radio network owner, issued a public apology and said it would stop distributing a discredited 2020 election conspiracy theory film after a Georgia man wrongly accused of voter fraud sued the company for defamation.
The Georgia man, Mark Andrews, said in his 2022 lawsuit that “2000 Mules,” a film and book by far-right activist Dinesh D’Souza contained a string of bogus claims about the 2020 election, leading to threats of violence against him and his family.
Andrews said the film, which has been repeatedly promoted by Donald Trump and widely circulated in right-wing media as supposed proof that the 2020 election was stolen, had severely damaged his reputation.
Salem operates a national talk radio network, distributing the programs of several prominent pro-Trump personalities such as Charlie Kirk and Sebastian Gorka, to more than 2,700 affiliates.
“We have learned that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has cleared Mr. Andrews of illegal voting activity in connection with the event depicted in 2000 Mules,” the company said.
Last month, the pro-Trump network One America News settled a lawsuit brought by voting technology company Smartmatic over the outlet’s promotion of lies about the 2020 election.
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