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AP Photo/Andrew Harnik An Iowa judge dismissed a lawsuit by President Donald Trump, who sought damages from the Des Moines Register and its former pollster, Ann Selzer. Selzer, a former longtime pollster for the paper, conducted a presidential poll days before the 2024 election showing Trump trailing then-Vice President Kamala Harris in Iowa, 47% to 44%. The survey turned out to be wildly errant, as Trump won the state 56% to 43%. The month after Trump won the election, he sued the Register, Selzer, and the paper’s parent company, citing “election interference.” “There was a perfectly good reason nobody saw this coming: because a three-point lead for Harris in deep-red Iowa was not reality,” the complaint said. “It was election-interfering fiction.” Iowa District Judge Scott J. Beattie saw the matter differently. “At its core, the plaintiffs’ petition seeks to stretch both Iowa statutory and common law beyond their current bounds, turning speech that enjoys the highest category of First Amendment protection into a liability,” Beattie wrote. Beattie went further, stating that even if he accepted Trump’s claims of intentional “election interference,” he would still side with the defendants. “Even with this assumption, each of the three counts still fails,” he wrote, stating that the lawsuit failed to demonstrate fraud or deception by the defendants. Selzer was represented in the case by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE. “We’re pleased that the court recognized what we’ve said all along: This lawsuit was laughable from the beginning and never should have been brought,” reacted FIRE Chief Counsel Bob Corn-Revere, who led Selzer’s defense. “The First Amendment does not allow anyone in government, least of all the president, to punish people under the banner of ‘fake news.’ That may work for him as a campaign slogan, but it is not a thing in the law.” Trump has escalated his war on the press since his first term. Last week, he banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, a move that prompted the outlets to sue. The president has also sued multiple news organizations, including CBS News, ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. CBS and ABC opted to settle.The post Judge Tosses Trump’s ‘Election Interference’ Lawsuit Against Newspaper and Pollster first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.15 hours ago - Zeb Norris To Program KTYD
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AP Photo/Evan Vucci Vice President JD Vance was reportedly the anonymous White House source behind a story that President Donald Trump’s administration is now pointing to as evidence for why Politico deserved to lose its White House access. The revelation, first reported Wednesday by Oliver Darcy’s Status, adds a striking wrinkle to the administration’s defense of its Friday decision to boot Politico from the White House grounds alongside CNN and MS NOW. The Washington Post reported just minutes earlier that the White House had identified six Politico stories in a Tuesday letter laying out its case against the outlet, accusing it of reporting that “threatened national security and/or spread falsehoods.” Among the stories highlighted was a June report on negotiations to end the war in Iran, which relied on comments from an unnamed “senior administration official” who estimated the chances of reaching a preliminary agreement at between 80 and 85 percent. But according to the Post, the comments did not come from an unauthorized leak. They were made during an official press call, hosted by the White House itself, in which the administration required participating journalists to identify the speaker only as a “senior administration official.” Now, Status has identified that official as Vance. According to Darcy, the vice president spoke to reporters from multiple outlets during the briefing about the administration’s negotiations with Iran. The participating journalists agreed to the White House’s terms granting Vance anonymity, Status reported. Status was not part of the briefing and therefore was not held to that agreement. The Post obtained a recording of the call in which a White House aide explicitly established those ground rules before the briefing began. “Good afternoon, and thank you for joining this press call,” the aide said. “The contents of this call are on background, attributable to a senior administration official. By remaining on the line, you agree to those terms. There is no embargo for the contents of the call.” During the call, Vance discussed the likelihood that the U.S. and Iran would reach an agreement. “I think the second thing is we do expect to be signing this agreement over the next few days,” he said. “I can’t give you an exact date. And if I were to give you a confidence that we were going to be finding this agreement, I maybe would have said 75 percent this morning. It’s probably more like 80,… [TheTopNews] Read More.15 hours ago - Stations To Dedicate 9/25 To Dolly Parton & Taylor Swift
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(AP Photo/David Zalubowski) United Airlines is facing backlash over its handling of an incident in which a 25-year-old woman said she was made to return to her seat next to a man she had reported for masturbating during a flight. The woman was traveling from Rochester, New York, to Newark Liberty International Airport on Sept. 3 when she noticed the man seated beside her masturbating; she told NBC News. The early-morning flight departed around 6 a.m., and the woman described the man, whom she estimated was between 35 and 40, as “pretty normal looking” and “unassuming.” “I just got the sense [he] had done it before,” she disclosed to NBC. “People don’t just do those things at 6 a.m.” The woman, a pediatric crisis therapist, said she immediately notified United staff and was allowed to stand away from her seat for roughly an hour. But as the plane prepared to land, she was allegedly told she needed to return to her seat because no others were available — despite repeatedly telling staff she was uncomfortable sitting beside the man. She said she was initially told she would only have to remain in her seat for about five minutes as the plane landed. Instead, because the pair were seated near the back of the aircraft, she remained beside him as passengers ahead of them deplaned. The man was then able to leave the plane without being stopped. When she subsequently approached a United employee at the gate about the incident, she was allegedly told, “What am I supposed to do about it?” The woman later filed complaints with United and the FAA and contacted the FBI. She also criticized the airline’s response after a United representative wrote in an email, “I can imagine how upsetting and uncomfortable it must have been to experience behavior from another passenger that caused you concern, particularly while seated in a location where you felt concerned.” “I DID remove myself and ask for help,” the woman stressed to NBC. “Additionally, framing public masturbation as ‘behavior that caused me concern’ implies that what occurred could somehow be perceived as acceptable.” “It is the first time I’ve been purposely trapped by people who were supposed to be helping me,” she concluded. United ultimately gave her a $100 flight credit, she said, despite the trip costing roughly $400. The airline has said it is investigating the incident. The internet… [TheTopNews] Read More.16 hours ago
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