Legal experts believe Trump would not succeed in a threatened lawsuit against the makers of an unflattering new biopic.
Former President Donald Trump would have little or no chance of winning a defamation lawsuit against the makers of a new biopic, legal experts have said.The film, The Apprentice, depicts a scheming young Donald Trump climbing up the property ladder, then dropping his wife, Ivana, when she is no longer of use to him.It also depicts him as a domestic abuser and that he abandoned his property mentor, also when he was no longer of use.
'The Apprentice biopic sounds like it is based on more than sufficient facts such that it will be lawsuit-proof. Trump can certainly threaten a lawsuit, and he can even file a lawsuit, but it will be a loser at the end of the day.'New York University constitutional law professor Peter Shane told Newsweek that the 1964 case of New York Times v. Sullivan established a high standard of proof for defamation of public figures.'Unless and until the Supreme Court overrules New York Times v.
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