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Thu Apr 23, 2026, 01:47 PM Thursday

'Laura Loomer loses defamation suit against Bill Maher and HBO over Trump relationship joke'

(MS NOW) "It’s been quite a week so far in American defamation litigation."

"On Monday, FBI Director Kash Patel filed a lawsuit against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick, deeming as defamatory a report in which she wrote that Patel 'is deeply concerned that his job is in jeopardy' and 'has good reasons to think so — including some having to do with what witnesses described to me as bouts of excessive drinking.' The suit called the report a 'sweeping, malicious, and defamatory hit piece.' "

"On Tuesday, Patel lost a suit he brought against a former MSNBC analyst who said on 'Morning Joe' last year that the FBI director was 'visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building.' Also on Tuesday, a former Capitol Police officer sued Blaze Media* and two reporters over what she said was the false accusation that she was the Jan. 5 pipe bomb planter."

"And now, a Florida judge has rejected a suit brought by Laura Loomer against comedian Bill Maher and HBO, the home of his 'Real Time with Bill Maher' show."

Continued at link:

https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/laura-loomer-loses-defamation-suit-against-bill-maher-and-hbo-over-trump-relationship-joke

*Blaze Media is a pay television network founded by Glenn Beck.

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