He’s trying to appeal to the American far-right, now, and they appear to like it when Trump does it. I think this is actually a major cultural difference between the US and Europe that I wasn’t previously aware of; this sort of temper tantrum would, I think, almost universally be seen as a sign of weakness here.
Frankly, I think this is the only reason countries with more plaintiff-friendly defamation laws, like the UK, haven’t been forced to reform them; it is such bad press for public figures to actually use them, particularly in nonsense cases like this, that they mostly don’t.
Frankly, I think this is the only reason countries with more plaintiff-friendly defamation laws, like the UK, haven’t been forced to reform them; it is such bad press for public figures to actually use them, particularly in nonsense cases like this, that they mostly don’t.