Trump Faces Humiliating Defeat by Reporter in Lawsuit

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Journalists and Media Companies --not named CBS or ABC-- are starting to fight back against Trump and win. Michael Popok reports in a win this week for award winning investigative journalist Bob Woodward and his publisher against Trump in NY in a money fight over the ownership of the "Trump Tapes". A NY Federal Judge just found that Trump can't sue for $50 million because, as alleged, he is not the "co-author" of his own interview audio tapes with Woodward, and that he will have difficulty ever successfully suing the reporter and the publisher. Go to http://mackweldon.com/?utm_source=streaming&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcastlaunch&utm_content=LEGALAFutm_term=LEGALAF and get 20% off your first order with promo code LEGALAF Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.1	go to amazon.com.uk.U.K. slash prime. Finally, we've got a win in favor of journalists,
0:34.5	media outlets, reporting against Donald Trump in the form of a new order by Judge
0:41.0	Garterty in New York in favor of Simon and Schuster, the publishing house, in favor of Bob Woodward,
0:45.9	the investigative reporter who together published over 20 different audio interviews of Donald Trump that Bob Woodward obtained when he was writing
0:57.2	the book, Rage, and they published it and repackaged it as audio interviews in the Trump tapes.
1:03.0	Donald Trump hated that. They made $50 million selling the Trump tapes. Donald Trump
1:08.6	wanted all the $50 million claiming he was a co-author
1:12.5	under the copyright statutes. I'm going to tell you what Judge Gardefee said, and with one twist
1:17.6	here, I'll put you on your edge of your seat at the top of this hot take. Simon and Schuster used
1:22.7	to be owned by the Redstone family and Paramount until right before this case was filed.
1:29.0	Then it was sold to a private equity firm.
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