Psychiatric hospital urged to sue MAGA smear artist ‘into bankruptcy’ by ex-DOJ official
A Justice Department veteran says a MAGA influencer's viral smear against a Senate candidate should cost him dearly in court.
Lisa Graves, a former Justice Department official, told "Legal AF" host Michael Popok during Monday's live show that Ohio's Lindner Center of HOPE should take right-wing influencer Nick Sortor to court after he claimed Texas state Rep. James Talarico had been treated at the psychiatric facility. "I personally hope the hospital sues him into bankruptcy because the damage to its business of making this claim is probably significant," Graves said.
Talarico, the Democrat running against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate, was off the campaign trail for about a week with the flu. Sortor then released audio of what he presented as a phone call with a Lindner representative, suggesting Talarico had been a patient....