MSNBC: Trump Possibly ‘Libeled’ and ‘Defamed’ Obama with Wiretap Tweets

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MELBER: "Accusing Obama of a Watergate level conspiracy to wiretap Trump Tower. He may have done more than distract. President Trump may have put himself in legal trouble. There's nothing abnormal about politicians attacking each other, to be sure. And our laws give great protection to political speech, meaning you can say all kinds of things in America without legal consequences, but not everything. Today legal experts say because of the particular way trump leveled his accusations this weekend he may have libeled Barack Obama. It is hard for political figures to win libel cases. They choose to be public so people can talk about them. That's the idea. But the Supreme Court has held some false attacks on a public figure are so terrible, they can be grounds for libel. The basic standard is that the statement must be false and the person making it either knew it was false or was reckless about whether it was false, which could be hard to prove. But there's evidence trump may have crossed that legal line."