Barbara McQuade: Trump’s $5 Billion Defamation Threat Is ‘Not Just Past Normal’ But ‘Past Legal’

RUSH EXCERPT:

MCQUADE: "Yeah, we’re not just past normal. We’re past legal because this is not the kind of case for which defamation law is designed. Defamation law is about an individual’s reputation. This is about whether using the National Guard in American cities had a positive impact on violent crime. The report uses data, it uses analysis, and it reaches a conclusion. Now, if you want to rebut that, you can do that. You can issue your own report. You can say this report was hogwash. Here’s our data that shows it was different. But to threaten defamation, especially with this kind of made up number of $5 billion, strikes me as really just a naked effort to intimidate them.”