Prominent YouTube podcaster Tim Pool has sued the Kamala Harris presidential campaign for defamation. The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia on Tuesday. The Harris campaign claimed that Pool is a “Trump operative” and that he advocates the jailing and even execution of those who don’t support Trump.
Pool is claiming that the Harris campaign did harm to him and his podcast when it claimed in an X that he supported a “plan to give [former President] Trump total, unchecked legal powers so they can jail and execute those who don’t support Trump if he wins.” Pool denies the allegation. He is seeking “all cognizable damages,” which he believes are in the millions of dollars; attorney fees; and a prominent retraction of the allegations.
Pool said on his 9/17 podcast:
I am not a Trump operative. I have never received any money from Trump, Trump’s associates or anything do with Donald Trump. I have nothing to do with Project 2025…. I have zero association with anything to do with this.… The closest thing is, they’ve appeared on this show at some point…. I have never called for unchecked legal power for anyone, in fact I’ve argued against it…. I oppose the death penalty in all circumstances.
“To make the claim that I am calling for that is shockingly insane,” he concluded. […]
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