Trump Suddenly Looks Very Afraid of Being Sued by Taylor Swift

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Trump Suddenly Looks Very Afraid of Being Sued by Taylor Swift - Lemmy.World

Donald Trump is trying to brush off the fact that he shared A.I.-generated images of Taylor Swift [https://newrepublic.com/post/184995/trump-ai-taylor-swift-endorsement] endorsing his campaign to his Truth Social account earlier this week, now claiming that he doesn’t know “anything about them.”

Given everything going on in this country and Trump’s ability to turn everything he touches shit, I almost think Swift has to respond to this at some point. I’m surprised she hasn’t already. I understand her desire to stay out of politics. But speaking out and denouncing this and everything about Trump isn’t her getting into politics. It’s her having to because Trump dragged her into it kicking and screaming.

She can’t stop those images from circulating. But the more they circulate, the more chances that at least some people think they’re real. Or at the very least, they may interpret her silence as a tacit endorsement. Some may even consider her a Trump supporter, especially those who don’t follow either her or politics closely enough to know that while she’s never taken an official political position, she’s proudly left leaning. Either way, those pictures have a very high likelihood of causing reputational (and, by extension, financial) harm by alienating a chunk of her fan base who may think she endorses his viewpoints. Especially when paired with his post implying she endorsed him.

Are those pictures even still up on his feed? I’m not going on that mall-restroom Twitter knockoff of his to check. I was half-surprised not to see her legal team have a C&D letter sent to him with his early morning McDonalds the next morning, a public statement by lunch, and a lawsuit filed against him for implying she endorsed him by the time the courtrooms had closed. I would fucking love to see Trump try to bully down Taylor fucking Swift’s legal team. You could put that shit on pay per view and eliminate the national debt.

Shes a Republican, of course she isn’t responding
Swift is most definitely not a Republican.
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Swift has previously stayed out of politics, in fear of isolating her audience. But since 2018, "Everything has changed."

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