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** Trump also has [https://anti-slapp.org/trump-and-the-first-amendment a history] of of filing SLAPP (“strategic lawsuit against public participation”) suits against anyone who criticizes or offends him, in an attempt to bankrupt them with legal fees or simply intimidate them into shutting up.
{{quote|"I spent a couple of bucks on legal fees, and they spent a whole lot more. I did it to make his life miserable, which I’m happy about."
|[https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q{{=}}cache:SEX0cqReQGgJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/that-time-trump-sued-over-the-size-of-hiswallet/2016/03/08/785dee3e-e4c2-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html+&cd{{=}}4&hl{{=}}en&ct{{=}}clnk&gl{{=}}us "What really gets under Trump’s skin? A reporter questioning his net worth"], ''The Washington Post'', March 8, 2016}}
::One of Trump's (fortunately unachieved) goals as president was to relax libel and other laws so that it would be ''easier'' to use the courts to suppress speech of which he didn't approve.
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