December 2020

Trump Campaign Admits Defeat (In Wisconsin Defamation Case Against Local Broadcaster)

By Charles D. Tobin, Maxwell S. Mishkin, and Brady C. Williamson

PUBLISHED IN: MediaLawLetter December 2020

TOPICS : Defamation

A week after President Trump lost re-election, his campaign committee abruptly dropped its Wisconsin defamation lawsuit over a super PAC’s political advertisement criticizing the President’s handling of the COVID pandemic.

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