CNN — Salem Media Group, the right-wing talk radio network owner, issued a public apology and said it would stop distributing a discredited 2020 election conspiracy theory film after a Georgia man wrongly accused of voter fraud sued the company for defamation.
The Georgia man, Mark Andrews, said in his 2022 lawsuit that “2000 Mules,” a film and book by far-right activist Dinesh D’Souza contained a string of bogus claims about the 2020 election, leading to threats of violence against him and his family.
Andrews said the film, which has been repeatedly promoted by Donald Trump and widely circulated in right-wing media as supposed proof that the 2020 election was stolen, had severely damaged his reputation.
People should know about Roy Cohn. He was Trump’s legal mentor until he was diagnosed with AIDS; then Trump disowned him.
Cohn made himself rich and powerful by going after Communists during the 1940s and 1950s. He was Joe McCarthy’s henchman and sent Ethel Rosenberg to the gas chamber.
His legal strategy was always attack, attack, attack. He’s the one who taught Trump that you could get things cheaper by refusing to pay and then going to court. Most small businesses don’t have the resources to go against a rich guy.
They have put the idea out there, and now they can claim that they can’t show the movie because of ‘government censorship.’
Classic Cohn move.