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Top Conservative Podcaster Suing Kamala Harris Campaign

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Conservative podcaster Tim Pool has filed a lawsuit against the Kamala Harris campaign for defamation and said that it “put a target” on his back.

The podcaster filed the lawsuit on Thursday when he said that he has received an increase in death threats and claimed to have noticed suspicious people monitoring his place of business, The Daily Signal reported.

“It’s putting a target on my back for things I don’t believe and things I actually argue against,” he said to The Daily Signal.

The focus of his lawsuit is focused on a specific post on X, formerly Twitter, done by the Kamala HQ account on August 31, 2024.

“Trump operatives say their Project 2025 plan is to give Trump total, unchecked legal power so they can jail and execute those who don’t support Trump if he wins (They have since scrubbed this video from YouTube),” the post said.

In the video shared with the post the Kamala HQ account included a clip from the podcaster in which he called for Democrats to be jailed if they are convicted of crimes. And later in the video the podcaster said that they should only be behind bars after a fair legal process was completed and they were found guilty of actual crimes and their civil rights were protected.

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The podcaster said that it was “absolutely incorrect” to label him as a “Trump operative.”

And he said he has no affiliation with Project 2025 or The Heritage Foundation, the group that designed it.

“It stated that I wanted Trump to have extra-judicial authority to jail and execute the people who refuse to support him, which is, I believe, the most shockingly extreme thing you could accuse someone of advocating for or believing,” he said in the interview.

“I didn’t specifically say ‘political opponents,’ it said ‘those who don’t support him,’ as if to imply your run-of-the-mill voter who says, ‘I don’t support Trump,’ may face extrajudicial execution by some kind of psychotic dictatorial regime,” he said. “It’s an absurdity, it’s insane.”

“One of the top presidential campaigns claims that a top global podcast, prominent political show is calling for run-of-the-mill voters who don’t support Trump to be executed should he win,” he said.

And he said that the claim that he scrubbed the video from the Internet was false and that he only removed it from YouTube after being flagged and said the video is still on Rumble.

He said that the post led to increased death threats and suspicious activities.

“Within a few days of this post going up, a strange man started lurking around one of my properties, our old studio location where we no longer operate out of,” he said.

The podcaster said that employees informed him that “a strange individual wearing a dress was trespassing on the property and filming the building.”

“This individual apparently got into a fight, injuring one of our employees,” he said.

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“I have absolutely seen an uptick in” messages on social media “some insinuating to the effect of wanting me to die or intending to have me die.”

He said he now gets “death threats… on a regular basis.

“But after this tweet goes out, I certainly noticed a dramatic increase in messages,” the podcaster said and he claimed that he used to get threats “once or twice a month,” but now it is “in the hundreds.”

For the podcaster’s lawsuit to succeed he and his attorney, James R. Lawrence III, a partner at Envisage Law who served momentarily as chief counsel of the Food and Drug Administration for former President Trump, have to prove “actual malice,” or a “reckless disregard for the truth.”

The podcaster said that the vice president’s campaign must have done research into the show to find the clip which means it must have also known that he opposes the death penalty.

“They state that it had since been scrubbed by YouTube, which would indicate they did some looking into what the show actually was,” he said.

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