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JB Pritzker, who railed against the now-president elect on the campaign trail, calling him a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JBPritzker\/status\/1799950038648459377\" target=\"_blank\">adjudicated rapist<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump recently settled a defamation lawsuit he brought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/14\/trump-abc-stephanopoulos-settlement-00194391\" target=\"_blank\">against ABC News and George Stephanopoulos<\/a> after the news anchor said on air that Trump was found liable for the rape of writer E. Jean Carroll. A jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse, not rape, though a judge later said it was accurate to say he was liable for rape in \u201ccommon modern parlance.\u201d The network agreed to pay a Trump-related foundation $15 million.<\/p>\n<p>Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a former Democrat who was pardoned by Trump of corruption charges, floated the idea of suing Pritzker in a post <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realBlagojevich\/status\/1868695946198233091\" target=\"_blank\">on X<\/a> Monday, urging the president-elect to sue the Illinois governor, who served as a surrogate for both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that Trump successfully won his defamation case against ABC for calling him a \u2018rapist,\u2019 when will he sue Illinois Governor JB Pritzker for repeatedly lying &amp; calling him the same thing?\u201d Blagojevich said.<\/p>\n<p>Pritzker, through a spokesperson, declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/17\/media-lawyers-trump-lawsuits-fears-00194938\" target=\"_blank\">a new strategy Trump<\/a> has begun to use private lawsuits to go after his critics. And the call to go after a political opponent is a new step that goes beyond suing journalists, who are under a professional obligation to provide accurate information.<\/p>\n<p>The conservative news outlet Illinois Review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.illinoisreview.com\/illinoisreview\/2024\/12\/blagojevich-urges-trump-legal-team-to-file-massive-defamation-suit-against-billionaire-pritzker-after-abc-news-agrees-to-15m-settlement.html\" target=\"_blank\">picked up<\/a> on Blagojevich\u2019s statement, and Roger Stone, another ally whose prison sentence was commuted by Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RogerJStoneJr\/status\/1869359038099800312\" target=\"_blank\">reposted the story<\/a> urging Trump to sue.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump transition team did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Political speech has historically been protected by the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allies of Donald Trump are pushing for him to file a lawsuit against Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who railed against the now-president elect on the campaign trail, calling him a \u201cadjudicated rapist.\u201d Trump recently settled a defamation lawsuit he brought against ABC News and George Stephanopoulos after the news anchor said on air that Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}