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Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump threaten lawsuit over Times Square billboards

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Jonathan Landay, Reuters

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/reuters/10/25/20201025-times-square-new-york-rtr-1.jpg?ext=.jpg"/><figcaption>Images of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are seen alongside messages about coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections and deaths on billboards sponsored by The Lincoln Project above Times Square in New York City, U.S. October 24, 2020.<em> Jeenah Moon, Reuters</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump&#x27;s daughter and son-in-law, both top White House aides, are threatening to sue a group of anti-Trump Republicans for posting billboard ads in New York City&#x27;s Times Square linking them to the country&#x27;s almost 225,000 coronavirus deaths.</p><p>A lawyer representing Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, made the threat on Friday in a letter to the Lincoln Project, calling the ads &quot;false, malicious and defamatory&quot; and saying they constituted &quot;outrageous and shameful libel.&quot;</p><p>&quot;If these billboard ads are not immediately removed, we will sue you for what will doubtless be enormous compensatory and punitive damages,&quot; Marc Kasowitz said in his letter, which the Lincoln Project posted on Twitter.</p><p>Kasowitz&#x27;s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p><p>https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/09/28/20/18-revelations-from-a-trove-of-trump-tax-records</p><p>In separate posts, the Lincoln Project responded &quot;Nuts!&quot; and said in a statement https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1319818697444216832, &quot;The billboards will stay up.&quot;</p><p>&quot;While we truly enjoy living rent free in their heads, their empty threats will not be taken any more seriously than we take Jared and Ivanka,&quot; the group said.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/reuters/10/25/20201025-times-square-new-york-rtr-2.jpg?ext=.jpg"/><figcaption>Images of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are seen alongside messages about coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections and deaths on billboards sponsored by The Lincoln Project above Times Square in New York City, U.S. October 24, 2020. <em>Jeenah Moon, Reuters</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>The group, which includes former campaign consultants to President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain, is the most prominent Republican-led organization opposing Trump&#x27;s re-election on Nov. 3. It has produced barrages of ads calling for his defeat, attacked pro-Trump Republican lawmakers and endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.</p><p>One of the ads features a smiling Ivanka Trump gesturing towards text showing the number of coronavirus deaths in New York and nationwide. The other is a photo of Kushner next to a quote attributed to him last month by Vanity Fair magazine, citing an unidentified source: &quot;(New Yorkers) are going to suffer and that&#x27;s their problem.&quot; (Reporting by Jonathan Landay; Editing by Heather Timmons and Daniel Wallis)</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DbHmIdrp58c?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's daughter and son-in-law, both top White House aides, are threatening to sue a group of anti-Trump Republicans for posting billboard ads in New York City's Times Square linking them to the country's almost 225,000 coronavirus deaths.</p>

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's daughter and son-in-law, both top White House aides, are threatening to sue a group of anti-Trump Republicans for posting billboard ads in New York City's Times Square linking them to the country's almost 225,000 coronavirus deaths.

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Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump threaten lawsuit over Times Square billboards

Jonathan Landay,

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Published Oct 25, 2020 07:57 PM PHT

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