Covington Catholic Student Nick Sandmann Files Major Lawsuit Against NBC
and MSNBC, by Hank Berrien
On Wednesday, attorneys for Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic
High School student who was targeted by the media after his encounter with
Native American activist Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18,
announced they are filing a $275 million lawsuit against NBCUniversal, alleging
“NBCUniversal created a false narrative by portraying the ‘confrontation’ as a
‘hate crime’ committed by Nicholas."
According to The Washington Times, the suit states that NBCUniversal was motivated by its “anti-Trump
agenda,” adding that Sandmann was “an easy target for NBCUniversal to advance
its anti-Trump agenda because he was a 16-year-old white, Catholic student who
had attended the Right to Life March that day and was wearing a MAGA cap at the
time of the incident which he had purchased earlier in the day as a souvenir.”
The suit also states that NBCUniversal, by means of NBC and MSNBC, “unleashed
its vast corporate wealth, influence, and power against Nicholas to falsely
attack him despite the fact that at the time, he was a 16-year-old high school
student.”
The lawsuit asserts, “Headlines run online by NBCUniversal outlets about
the incident included, 'Nathan Phillips, Native American man harassed by high
schoolers, tells his story,' and 'Video of teens taunting man at Indigenous
Peoples March sparks outrage.'
Sandmann’s
attorneys have already filed a $250 million suit against the Washington Post
and another suit against CNN for $275 million. As The Daily Wire
reported in
mid-February, Sandmann's lawyers warned when they sued The Washington Post that
more suits would be forthcoming. They said in a statement:
Today,
Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry filed their first lawsuit on behalf of Nicholas
Sandmann against The Washington Post. The lawsuit filed is included below. The
suit seeks $250 million in both compensatory and punitive damages. Lin and Todd
will continue to bring wrongdoers before the court to seek damages in
compensation for the harm so many have done to the Sandmann family. This is
only the beginning.
The
lawsuit against the Post stated: "In targeting and bullying Nicholas by
falsely accusing him of instigating the January 18 incident, the Post conveyed
that Nicholas engaged in acts of racism by “swarming” Phillips, “blocking” his
exit away from the students, and otherwise engaging in racist misconduct. The
Post ignored basic journalist standards because it wanted to advance its well-known
and easily documented, biased agenda against President Donald J. Trump (‘the
President’) by impugning individuals perceived to be supporters of the
President."
The Daily Wire
reported in
mid-March that Sandmann’s attorneys announced they were suing CNN, with one
saying, “Well, what CNN’s tagline is facts first. And what we believe their
reporting was in this circumstance was lies first; cover up second, and facts
not yet determined by that organization. So the difference between this lawsuit
and the other lawsuit that we have filed is that CNN is a very significant
media organization with a much broader reach than say The Washington Post. It
has a Twitter followers of 41 million people. It published four videos. Nine
online articles that were tweeted out. So that’s millions and millions and
millions of repetitions of the lies and falsehoods that CNN spread."
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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