Tim Pool: Why He's Suing the Harris Campaign for Defamation

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Podcaster Tim Pool filed a defamation lawsuit against Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign Thursday. He says he has faced an increase in death threats and that suspicious people have been monitoring his place of business, two developments he finds alarming after two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump. Enjoy the show!

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, September 24th. I'm Tyler O'Neill.
0:12.2	I sat down with Tim Poole who runs the Tim Cast podcast extremely
0:19.6	influential popular podcaster you know a guy who is really known for
0:26.2	opposing things like the death penalty and standing for civil liberties and a lot of people may disagree with Tim Pool. He has a lot of people on his
0:35.3	podcast who actually support the death penalty and he's debated this issue many times he loves
0:42.4	to debate it.
0:43.6	Anyway, I spoke with him because he filed a defamation lawsuit
0:48.4	on Thursday against Vice President
0:51.4	Kamala Harris's presidential campaign and it's all because
0:56.3	she sent out this tweet her campaign sent out this tweet that he says defames him and he goes even further than that he says
1:07.0	it's putting a target on my back for things I don't believe and things I actually
1:12.4	argue against.
1:14.2	And I think that is the fundamental issue in this lawsuit,
1:18.2	because this tweet that the Kamala Harris campaign put out there suggested that Tim Poole supports extra judicial
1:29.1	killings, not just of people who might be guilty, but of people who just oppose the campaign of Donald
1:37.6	Trump.
1:38.6	And you know, this is, or rather don't support the campaign of Donald Trump.
1:41.8	So here's the statement that
1:44.2	Kamala HQ tweeted. They say Trump and this is a quote, Trump
1:49.0	operatives say their Project 2025 plan is to give Trump total unchecked legal power so they can
1:57.5	jail and execute those who don't support Trump if he wins. And this one message could not be further from Tim
2:07.2	Pool's actual position and you know you'll hear him explain more in depth on that shortly.
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