Aussie liberal leader found to have defamed his former MP
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The ABC reports:
Victoria’s Opposition Leader John Pesutto has lost a defamation case against former Liberal partyroom colleague Moira Deeming.
Ms Deeming brought the lawsuit against Mr Pesutto, alleging the Victorian Liberal leader had defamed her as a Nazi sympathiser in the wake of an anti-trans-rights rally.
She won $300,000 damages plus costs.
I can’t recall a party leader being sued for defamation before by someone who was in their caucus.
His mistake was repeating smears that attending a gender-critical rally was somehow aligning with Nazis. He threw his own MP under the bus to try and appease the wine mob, and has ended up fatally wounded.
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