Attorneys for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner threatened to sue The Lincoln Project, a prominent Republican group opposing the president, for billboards it put up in Times Square in Manhattan.
The attorneys in a letter to The Lincoln Project complained about one billboard displaying Ivanka Trump, a senior adviser to her father, President Trump, smiling and gesturing next to figures showing that more than 33,000 New Yorkers and 221,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus. The lawyers also cited a billboard featuring Kushner, another senior White House adviser, next to body bags and an unrelated 2019 quote from before the pandemic in which he said New Yorkers would “suffer.”
Nuts! pic.twitter.com/XxxkG43z3W
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 24, 2020
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The Lincoln Project maintained in a statement that it will leave the billboards up, saying they accurately depict a lax attitude toward the pandemic.
“The level of indignant outrage Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have shown towards The Lincoln Project for exposing their indifference for the more than 223,000 people who have lost their lives due to their reckless mismanagement of COVID-19 is comical. While we truly enjoy living rent free in their heads, their empty threats will not be taken any more seriously than we take Ivanka and Jared,” the group said in a statement.
“It is unsurprising that an administration that has never had any regard or understanding of our Constitution would try to trample on our first amendment rights but we fully intend on making this civics lesson as painful as possible,” it added.
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Ivanka Trump, Jared Kusher's lawyer threatens to sue Lincoln Project over Times Square billboards https://t.co/eNgZ4NuwRC pic.twitter.com/oRcDAsT5vA
— The Hill (@thehill) October 24, 2020
BLAM. https://t.co/IZHfFftAsj
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 24, 2020
How it started. How it’s going. pic.twitter.com/mRpdFYo9Vq
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) October 24, 2020
🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 pic.twitter.com/iqHQjktlCI
— YS (@NYinLA2121) October 24, 2020
In case you missed it. https://t.co/wbTFyEq3VN
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 24, 2020
“Siri, what is the Streisand Effect?”
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump threaten to sue Lincoln Project over Times Square ads https://t.co/8zZS0RxHMh via @nypmetro
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 24, 2020
"Remove them or we sue" is not how the law works, that's a threat and illegal. If they believe they have a case, then they should sue. And in the process, I'm sure the Lincoln Project will have a lot of fun in discovery. https://t.co/M7XJOhEdcx
— Alternative NOAA (@altNOAA) October 24, 2020
The Lincoln Project’s legal response to the frivolous threat of a lawsuit from Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s lawyer.
This will not be the last they hear from us. pic.twitter.com/GNnFsnsCer
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 24, 2020
UPDATE: @ProjectLincoln seems eager for a legal battle w/ Jared & Ivanka. @Mediaite confirmed that so far 7 top #FreeSpeech lawyers have joined a pro bono legal team to assist in the PAC's defense, including @MarkSZaidEsq. #TimesSquareBillboards https://t.co/0z9OI1paw5
— Sarah Rumpf (@rumpfshaker) October 25, 2020
This is just too funny. The content of the billboards is true and I think Ivanka and Jared will have a helluva time trying to prove they’ve been harmed by the billboards. It’s a typical Trump ploy — don’t like something, threaten to sue. Well the threat isn’t working on these guys.
Instead of fussing over billboards, perhaps Ivanka and Jared should be more concerned with how they are going to defend themselves when The Trump Crime Family is indicted and prosecuted after the Godfather leaves office.
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