Pssssssssst! Republican strategist files $4m libel suit against Trump and his campaign

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/18/trump-campaign-cheri-jacobus-libel-suit-corey-lewandowski
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Donald Trump’s campaign manager allegedly boasted that the Republican frontrunner’s campaign “could do what they wanted with Fox” and that the cable news channel was on their side, according to a libel lawsuit filed by a Republican strategist.

In the $4m defamation lawsuit filed on Monday in New York City, Republican strategist Cheri Jacobus says that Trump, his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, and the Trump campaign attempted to smear her after she criticized the candidate as a television pundit.

In particular, Jacobus alleges that Trump and his campaign targeted her “with the purpose of making her an object lesson, to those who might question Trump and his fitness for office, to incite a virtual mob against her, to destroy her reputation, and to bully her”.

Jacobus said she had met with the campaign in 2015 about a potential job as communications director after a staffer approached her. After two meetings, she ended the conversation, deciding that she had no interest in a position after deciding Lewandowski was “unprofessional” and “a powder keg”. However, after she criticized Trump on television months later, the candidate started tweeting about her, saying “Great job on @donlemon tonight @kayleighmcenany @cherijacobus begged us for a job. We said no and she went hostile. A real dummy! @CNN.”

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