Authorized knowledgeable reveals if Donald Trump can sue Trevor Noah over Grammys Epstein joke

Donald Trump has as soon as once more made a serious lawsuit risk, this time aiming it at Grammy host Trevor Noah.

Trevor Noah made a number of digs at celebrities over the course of the Grammys, eliciting cheers when he joked that newfound Trump ally Nicki Minaj was not in attendance.

Essentially the most controversial joke of the evening nevertheless was aimed toward Trump and Invoice Clinton over their involvement within the Epstein information, main Trump to threaten a lawsuit in opposition to the host.

Although the US Home Democrats have clarified that being talked about or pictured within the information just isn’t itself an indication of wrongdoing, Epstein’s emails characteristic him discussing the US President, alleging that he likes ladies on the ‘youthful facet’, and even saying he ‘doesn’t like black ladies.

Noah mentioned on the Grammys: “Tune of the 12 months — that could be a Grammy that each artist desires nearly as a lot as Trump desires Greenland, which is smart as a result of Epstein’s island is gone, he wants a brand new one to hang around with Invoice Clinton.”



Trump took to Reality Social with a livid rant, saying: “Noah mentioned, INCORRECTLY about me, that Donald Trump and Invoice Clinton frolicked on Epstein Island. WRONG!!!

“I can’t communicate for Invoice, however I’ve by no means been to Epstein Island, nor anyplace shut, and till tonight’s false and defamatory assertion, have by no means been accused of being there, not even by the Faux Information Media.”

He went on to say he could be sending his legal professionals to sue Noah, calling the host a ‘poor, pathetic, talentless, dope of an M.C’.

Trump ought to probably not trouble although in keeping with authorized defamation knowledgeable Bill Ogden, who says the President wouldn’t have a lot success if he had been to sue Noah.

Talking completely to LADbible, Ogden beforehand represented 4 mother and father of Sandy Hook college students who had been killed within the capturing and efficiently sued Alex Jones for defamation, successful $49,300,000 in damages.

When requested a few potential case in opposition to Noah, he mentioned: “From a authorized standpoint, it’s extremely unlikely that Trevor Noah faces any professional defamation legal responsibility over final evening’s joke.

“On the Grammy Awards, comedians routinely interact in satire and hyperbole, and courts within the U.S. have lengthy acknowledged that such statements are protected beneath the First Modification and don’t quantity to provable assertions of reality.

“As a result of Donald Trump is indisputably a public determine, the bar he should fulfill for a defamation declare is extraordinarily excessive.”

The authorized knowledgeable went on to state that President Trump would want to ‘present that an allegedly false assertion was made about him with ‘precise malice.’’

Because of this Noah knew it was false, or he ‘recklessly disregarded the reality’.

Ogden went on to lastly add: “Given the context of a stay comedy monologue and the custom of political humour at awards exhibits, the legislation usually treats these remarks as opinion or rhetorical exaggeration slightly than defamatory statements.

“There’s additionally vital precedent confirming that parody or satire about public figures is protected, even when it’s pointed or uncomfortable.

“So whereas this can be rhetorically provocative, from a authorized perspective a lawsuit would face very steep constitutional hurdles.”