{"id":36946,"date":"2025-03-25T16:13:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/trump-campaign-chief-sues-daily-beast-over-defamation-claims\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:13:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:13:58","slug":"trump-campaign-chief-sues-daily-beast-over-defamation-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/trump-campaign-chief-sues-daily-beast-over-defamation-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaign chief sues Daily Beast over defamation claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news website calls the lawsuit \u2018meritless and a transparent attempt to &#8230; silence the independent press\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A top campaign manager for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s victorious 2024 presidential bid has filed a defamation lawsuit against the Daily Beast, alleging the news outlet fabricated claims about his campaign compensation and deliberately damaged his professional reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Chis LaCivita\u2019s lawsuit, filed on Monday in the US district court for the eastern district of Virginia, centers on a series of articles published in October 2024 claiming that he received up to $22m from the campaign and associated political action committees.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/25\/daily-beast-trump-campaign-chief-chis-lacivita-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news website calls the lawsuit \u2018meritless and a transparent attempt to &#8230; silence the independent press\u2019 A top campaign manager for Donald Trump\u2019s victorious 2024 presidential bid has filed a defamation lawsuit against the Daily Beast, alleging the news outlet fabricated claims about his campaign compensation and deliberately damaged his professional reputation. Chis LaCivita\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Trump campaign chief sues Daily Beast over defamation claims\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/trump-campaign-chief-sues-daily-beast-over-defamation-claims\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump campaign chief sues Daily Beast over defamation claims\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}