Trump Ally Threatens To Sue Media To Protect Matt Gaetz

Harlan Hill, a former Trump surrogate that has been voraciously defending Matt Gaetz since a scandal broke earlier this year, is now threatening media outlets that have covered Gaetz's scandal. Hill appears to be angry about the fact that Gaetz's spending habits (not THOSE spending habits) are being revealed thanks to financial disclosures, showing that Hill's group is being paid by Gaetz. Farron Cousins explains why this whole thing is ridiculous and why neither Gaetz nor Hill have a real legal case.

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A former Trump surrogate and campaign advisor by the name of Harlan hill is out there actively threatening the media over their coverage of the Matt gates scandal. That's now been going on since I believe leave

March here

As well. Mr. Hill had to say this week after it was reported that a financial disclosures show that Matt gates had paid Hills from Logan circle group $737,000 in the second quarter of 2021 here Hill's statement four months into a fake scandal, cooked up by a corporate media who should be, and will be apologizing for the conduct towards representative gates. They're now reporting on financial expenses incurred as a result of their own smear campaigns. If we were them, we'd be worried about our own financial liabilities, having repeatedly libeled

And lied, libeled

And lied. Now that's not a small accusation to throw around Mr. Hill. And you know that, and you also know that if Matt gates had been libeled, he would have already filed those lawsuits immediately. Like literally, as soon as those stories dropped, if they were faking, he could prove it. He have filed those lawsuits. So your threat is pretty much empty and hollow. Second of all, why are you off that? They reported that, Hey, you got paid your group, Logan circle group got paid $737,000. And you're off about that. Like, no, that, that, that to me would be, cause for celebration, like woo one dude gave us $737 for the last three months. That's pretty awesome guys, businesses booming, but you're about it because you're like he had to pay that money because the media he was being mean to him and libeling him.

Yeah. But he, he paid that money to you to basically basically do what you're doing now saying, oh, this is all hogwash now, Harlan hill, in case you haven't been paying attention, he has been very outspoken and oftentimes voracious in his defense of Matt gates. You know, he's, he's been on social media. He's been, uh, in other forms of media, defending Matt gates saying all of this, you know, is essentially trumped up. Uh, which of course, you know, if you're being paid by the group to say those things, those are the kinds of things you would say. And maybe that's what Hill's actually about. You know, that now he's no longer seen as just kind of this independent actor, you know, this conservative, uh, adviser. Nope. Now it's clear that you're on the payroll and that's why you're saying what you're saying, but you cannot.

I mean, legally you cannot just go around and threaten to, uh, slap people with libel lawsuits because basically then you could end up, uh, if you file these fictitious libel lawsuits, you could end up getting slapped, um, with a slap suit, actually, uh, for trying to silence these people. Furthermore, nobody's libeled Matt gates, even in our reporting of it, we are very careful to point out the fact that he has not been charged with anything that all of these at the moment are simply accusations against him. Uh, as far as I've seen, nobody has even come forward, uh, in their media outlet and said he did these things a hundred percent. He's guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, no, we have extrapolated and made predictions and analyses based on the available data. But nobody's just outright come out and said, Nope, this shows he did it. He's not innocent. Blah, blah, blah. Yeah, we don't do those kinds of things because we understand you can't do those kinds of things. So again, his threat rings hollow. He's just trying to scare people. Now, the other side of this though, is the fact that we have gone quite a while without any more Matt gates, right? Revelations. It's a little disappointing in it. Well, I have a phone with that story and then it kind of just petered out at the moment. The investigation of course is still ongoing, but no big revelations recently,

I actually, uh, one legal expert. I forget who, but couple of months