Lawyers for eight Covington Catholic high school students who were viciously smeared by near half the media complex and many Hollywood goons just hit back.
In a much-anticpated lawsuit, many heavy hitters were named. Kathy Griffin was one of the smear merchants according to the lawsuit and at least she will be spending big money on lawyers to fight it off.
The boy just lost a lawsuit with the Washington Post but believe they have better grounds in this lawsuit. CNN’s Ana Navarro was also named.
Lawandcrime reported that lawyers for eight Covington Catholic students filed a defamation lawsuit on Thursday in Kentucky’s Kenton County Circuit Court against 12 people including lawmakers, journalists, media figures and social media personalities.
Attorneys Robert Barnes and Kevin Murphy began the suit by going back to January 18, 2019, when they claimed that, “A field trip to our nation’s capital for a group of minors from Covington, Kentucky turned into a social media nightmare that changed their futures forever.”
This was when MAGA hat wearing high school students (Nick Sandmann, in particular) came face to face with a 65-year-old Native American man identified as Nathan Phillips. The lawsuit said that the defendants jumped to conclusions, painting the plaintiffs as racists, lying about an event they did not witness in firsthand, and libeling the kids. (Note that these minors are bringing this lawsuit through their parents.)
“Several of our Senators, most-famous celebrities, and widely read journalists, collectively used their large social media platforms, perceived higher credibility and public followings to lie and libel minors they never met, based on an event they never witnessed,” the lawsuit said.
“These defendants called for the kids to be named and shamed, doxxed and expelled, and invited public retaliation against these minors from a small town in Kentucky.”
“The defendants circulated false statements about them to millions of people around the globe. The video of the entire event, known to the defendants, exposed all of their factual claims against the kids as lies.”
“The defendants were each individually offered the opportunity to correct, delete, and/or apologize for their false statements, but each refused and continued to circulate the false statements about these children to this very day on their social media platforms they personally control.”
The defendants have been named as follows (Law&Crime is not including a copy of the lawsuit here so as not publicize their addresses): 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Deb Haaland, CNN’s Ana Navarro, Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, comedian Kathy Griffin, ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, Reza Aslan (formerly of CNN), Kentucky entrepreneur Adam Edelen, Princeton University History Professor Kevin M. Kruse, activist and journalist Shaun King, Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery and Rewire.News editor-in-chief Jodi Jacobson.
