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Why Joe Arpaio and Larry Klayman’s media defamation lawsuit will fail

By Tom Rogan
Published December 12, 2018 4:59pm ET
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Why Joe Arpaio and Larry Klayman’s media defamation lawsuit will fail
Freedom Watch attorney Larry Klayman speaks to reporters outside the Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, Thursday, April 2, 2015, after appealing the dismissal of a Freedom of Information Act request seeking records from the State Department about Israeli war plans and its cyber warfare techniques to New York Times reporter David Sanger when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. | (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Irony evidently not one of his stronger suits, Freedom Watch chief Larry Klayman has joined with Joe Arpaio in a defamation suit against CNN, the Huffington Post, and Rolling Stone magazine. The two men claim more than $300 million in defamation damages.

Arpaio and Klayman will lose. And rightly so.

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