Days after Trump and his attorney attempted to stop the publication of Fire and Fury, the controversial book written by journalist Michael Wolff giving behind-the-scenes into what it was like to work in the White House during Trump’s first year in office, the legal team of Wolff and publisher Henry Holt have written a letter refusing to buckle under the president’s demands.
Huffpost obtained the document written by lawyer Elizabeth McNamara. In it, McNamara directly responds to the Trump team’s prior cease-and-desist letter.
My clients do not intend to cease publication, no such retraction will occur, and no apology is warranted.
Though your letter provides a basic summary of New York libel law, tellingly, it stops short of identifying a single statement in the book that is factually false or defamatory. Instead, the letter seems designed to silence legitimate criticism.
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