Rose42

Yet people trust the Washington Post for news. They lie like everyone else. Makes one wonder just how often they do it.


The Washington Post on Friday agreed to settle a monster $250 million lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann over its botched coverage of his 2019 encounter with a Native American elder.

Sandmann declared the victory in a tweet on his 18th birthday. It’s unclear how much the newspaper settled for.

“On 2/19/19, I filed $250M defamation lawsuit against Washington Post. Today, I turned 18 & WaPo settled my lawsuit,” he wrote.

“Thanks to @ToddMcMurtry & @LLinWood for their advocacy. Thanks to my family & millions of you who have stood your ground by supporting me. I still have more to do,” he continued.

It’s the teen’s second win in a whopping $800 million defamation battle against a number of news outlets including the Washington Post, CNN, ABC, CBS, The Guardian, The Hill and NBC.

CNN agreed to settle with Sandmann in January this year as part of a separate $275 million claim.

Sandmann and a group of his Covington classmates were vilified on social media after they were filmed wearing “Make America Great Again” hats after an anti-abortion rally while being yelled at by demonstrators.

Sandmann, then 16, was singled out after footage of his confrontation with Native American activist Nathan Phillips was picked up by CNN and other outlets who claimed the incident was racially motivated.

Footage released later showed it was the Covington students who were being harassed.

In a subsequent tweet Friday, Sandmann fired a warning shot at Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

“We have settled with WAPO and CNN. The fight isn’t over. 2 down. 6 to go. Don’t hold your breath @jack,” he wrote.


https://nypost.com/2020/07/24/washington-post-settles-250m-suit-with-covington-teen-nick-sandmann/?fbclid=IwAR1Waa0onDtJYt043xLJt3ykbyNkjV1LQHEMpyXnYJDtvbzRxGSEXnyt25o

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post is the richest person in the world and a horrible person. Of course he is a major player (behind the scenes) in the Democrat Party. the Party of the common man. Yea, right.

bahmer

Amen and Amen

John Meoff

I wonder what OPP's liberals think (if you can call what they do thinking) about this.

John Meoff

That poo kid was the object of so many liberal's scorn. The entire staff of CNN & MSNBC owe him an apology as do the liberals of OPP who chimed in against him. If course, they never will apologize because they aren't decent enough.

Contempt from me to all of them.

Rose42

According to the left its only Fox news that twists the news - not the rest of the MSM. They won't acknowledge this.

bahmer

Chances are that they won't respond to this or any other lawsuit that will be settled against the liberal media.

Kevyn

This is sort of a nothing story. The paper itself doesn't settle nuisance lawsuits of this nature, their insurance company does. They don’t want to risk a big payout if a crackpot jury screws up and decides in the kids favor so they pay him a pittance his lawyer takes his cut without needing to go to trial. Now the little scumbag can by a hopped up Dodge Challenger and wrap it around a tree.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

He'll probably buy a Gulfstream and hire you to clean the toilets lil guy.

Rose42

Like I said, the left will continue to believe the Post is trustwoethy.

John Meoff

The newspaper will have to pay one way or the other.

Scumbag? Just when it looks as if you've hit bottom and can't go any lower Kevyn, you always surprise.

Jlw Loc: Wisconsin

With her tongue?

Kickaha Loc: Nebraska

The same as some bimbo making an allegation of an extramarital affair with a wealthy man. His lawyer tells him he can win, but it will take months, millions of dollars and a lot of negative press coverage. Or he can settle for a fraction of the price, no publicity and a non-disclosure agreement to keep everything private. Normally, people and companies take the easy way out and settle even if they did nothing wrong.

son of witless

debeda

Well poop, I didn't see this and just reposted it. But YAY for that young man!!!