Trump campaign manager sues the Daily Beast over stories on how much he earned

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Yahoo! News/AP

Mon, March 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM EDT


The co-manager of President Donald Trump’s successful 2024 campaign sued the Daily Beast for defamation Monday over stories regarding how much he was paid for his work.

The lawsuit on behalf of Chris LaCivita said the online publication’s stories that he was paid $22 million over two years — later corrected to $19.2 million — “created the false impression that Mr. LaCivita was personally profiting excessively from his work for the campaign and that he was prioritizing personal gain over the campaign’s success.”

The Daily Beast said it stood by its reporting and said the lawsuit “is meritless and a transparent attempt to intimidate the Beast and silence the independent press.” Celebrity attorney Mark Geragos is representing LaCivita in the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Richmond, Virginia. The filing was first reported by Axios.

The case continues a trend of aggressive action taken against the news media by Trump and those in his orbit. Trump has sued CBS News for $20 billion over editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with his 2024 opponent, Kamala Harris, and sued the Des Moines Register over an Iowa election poll that turned out to be inaccurate. ABC News settled a lawsuit with Trump over its incorrect claim that the president had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-campaign-manager-sues-daily-000215747.html

[Botany]

1. Please proceed Mr. Chris.

Because if you sue then you are open to a deposition.

Btw freedom of the press is in the Constitution.

[Martin68]

2. Long live freedom of speech!

[reACTIONary]

5. Hear! Hear! And...

.... Speak! Speak!

[Hotler]

3. They sure cry-bag and whine a lot. Could it be a shortage of masculinity? nt

[NotHardly]

4. Women/girls are smarter than Trump's troglodytes.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

6. Don't try too hard to contest it.

This is basic freedom. If the courts are functioning properly on this level, they will rule correctly. If they're corrupted, then no strength of argument will persuade them. In the latter case, reject the ruling as illegitimate and refuse to pay a dime.

If additional steps are necessary, then they're necessary. But all threats must be confronted directly and ASAP. We can't afford to pretend, even for a second, that these people aren't Russian-owned and directed terrorist occupiers.

[Bengus81]

7. Everyone wants in on the Trump new type of grifting and

filed a lawsuit over a claim (later changed) of $11M per year salary when it was actually $9.6M per year??


Bwahahahahahahahahah!!!! Oh fucking please asshat.........

[Lovie777]

8. I do not feel safe...........

[sakabatou]

9. If his earnings are public record, LaCivita has no leg to stand on

[Quanto Magnus]

10. With that kind of pay

he absolutely was looking out to enrich himself.