Thread: Donald Trump settles $500 million lawsuit he filed against Univision

By MIA DE GRAAF FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS PUBLISHED: 19:32 GMT, 11 February 2016 | UPDATED: 21:16 GMT, 11 February 2016

Donald Trump settles $500 million lawsuit he filed against Univision after Spanish-language network dropped Miss Universe to protest his comments about Mexicans

Univision contracted to televise Miss USA and Miss Universe until 2020

The network dropped the pageants after Donald Trump insulted Mexicans

Trump, who owned the shows, hit back with $500m lawsuit in June 2015

On Thursday, both sides said they had 'amicably' settled the case

Donald Trump has resolved a $500 million legal dispute with Univision over the firm's decision not to broadcast Miss Universe and Miss USA this summer.

The Spanish-language network dropped plans to televise the pageants in protest against Trump's incendiary comments about Mexicans.

Branding all Mexicans 'drug dealers and criminals', he wooed America's Conservative right by saying he planned to build a wall on the Southern border.

On Thursday - almost six months after the dispute fired up - Trump said the two sides had amicably resolved their differences, and neither side gave details about the settlement.

Trump said that he had known Univision's president and CEO, Randy Falco, for two decades and 'I'm glad we are able to put these differences behind us.'

At the time, Univision claimed Trump had 'offended millions' with his comments.

Trump fired back with a $500 million lawsuit claiming the Spanish-language broadcaster unjustly broke a contract.

'Trump offended millions during that announcement when he made disgraceful allegations about Mexican immigrants, whom, he claims, "Mexico sends" across the border to America,' Univision's lawyers wrote on June 25, 2015, as they announced the network was ending ties with Trump.

They said his remarks 'outraged Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, Hispanics, and other Americans of all backgrounds,' prompting at least 20 companies and the city of New York to terminate business relationships with Trump and his brand in the weeks after the announcement.

Trump's lawsuit claimed breach of contract, defamation and First Amendment violations.

During the summer, Matthew Maron, an attorney for Trump, said Univision's attempt to dismiss the suit was 'laughable'.

'Univision can try to distract the court and the public from the real issues in dispute all it wants. The fact remains that Univision willfully breached their contract, acted in bad faith and caused my clients to suffer significant damages,' Maron said.
'For this, Univision will pay in the end.'

Univision lawyers noted that the network was the leading media company serving Hispanic America when Trump delivered 'extreme and controversial opinions on race and national origin'.

'Through his diatribe, Trump destroyed the value of those broadcast rights, and neither Trump nor Miss Universe did anything to repair the damage in the aftermath of his speech,' Univision's lawyers said in a document signed by attorney Randy M. Mastro.

In January 2015, Univision signed a five-year license agreement for the exclusive right to air the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants in Spanish in the United States.

Univision's lawyers said Trump worsened the damage caused by his initial remarks about Hispanics by saying in the days afterward that his statements were 'totally accurate'.

Univision announced on June 25 that it was ending its business relationship with the pageants.

'By the end of June, it was clear that Trump's anti-Mexican and anti-immigrant views would be a focal point of his campaign and that the damage done to Univision's programming deal was irrevocable,' the lawyers wrote.

'Trump shocked the nation's conscience by accusing almost every Mexican immigrant (and many Univision viewers) of being criminals and rapists — then promising to become president of the United States on the strength of that indictment.'

Trump owned the pageants when Univision refused to broadcast them. He has since sold them.

Read more: Donald Trump settles $500 million lawsuit he filed against Univision | Daily Mail Online

Branding all Mexicans 'drug dealers and criminals', he wooed America's Conservative right by saying he planned to build a wall on the Southern border.

That's a big lie from Daily Mail right there. Trump was addressing illegal aliens, not "all Mexicans". It is disgusting powerful lies like this that make people hate newspapers and the propagandists masquerading as journalists.

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

That's a big lie from Daily Mail right there. Trump was addressing illegal aliens, not "all Mexicans". It is disgusting powerful lies like this that make people hate newspapers and the propagandists masquerading as journalists.

W

Yeah, that's just baldfaced propaganda right there. Goebbels would be proud them. It's so, so said how far Once-Great Britain has fallen.