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Attorney for Covington Student May Sue Bill Maher

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By    |   Thursday, 21 February 2019 02:31 PM EST

The attorney for Covington Catholic school student Nick Sandmann is “looking very carefully” at suing HBO host Bill Maher for making “defamatory” statements against Sandmann.

Sandmann has filed a lawsuit against The Washington Post for its coverage of his encounter with a Native American elder and veteran in Washington, D.C., in January. Maher, on his Jan. 27 episode of “Real Time” on HBO, referred to Sandmann as “a little prick.”

"Well, certainly CNN and Bill Maher did things that we consider to have crossed the line. We think the statements they made are defamatory. They're not humorous," attorney Lin Wood said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity Wednesday night. "So certainly Bill Maher is somebody that we're looking at very carefully, and HBO, for allowing him to make those defamatory statements." 

"I don't blame the kid, the smirk-face kid,” Maher said on his show. “I blame lead poisoning and bad parenting. And, oh yeah, I blame the f---ing kid, what a little prick.”

"Smirk face, like that's not a dick move at any age to stick your face in this elderly man," he continued. "You know, I don't spend a lot of time, I must tell you, around Catholic school children, but I do not get what Catholic priests see in these kids.”

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The attorney for Covington Catholic school student Nick Sandmann is “looking very carefully” at suing HBO host Bill Maher for making “defamatory” statements against Sandmann.
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Thursday, 21 February 2019 02:31 PM
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