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Harry Reid Lost His Civil Lawsuit Against TheraBand (Opposing Counsel Noted His Problems Telling The Truth)



Former Senator Harry Reid lost his civil case against TheraBand last week. Reid was seriously injured in 2015 while exercising with the band in his bathroom. He later sued the manufacturer claiming its product was unsafe for use by elderly people like himself. But during the trial, attorney Laurin Quiat who represented the company that manufacturers ThereBand, showed clips of Reid telling various stories about his injury, some of which contradicted things he said on the stand during the trial. Quiat argued that Harry Reid seemed to have difficulty telling the truth, which won’t surprise anyone who is familiar with Harry Reid. Let’s count the shifting statements with some help from the Associated Press. First, his reason for not running for office again:

Reid testified last week his injuries were “the main factor” why he decided not to seek a sixth Senate term in 2016. Quiat, however, showed the jury a 2015 video news release in which Reid said his decision not to run had “absolutely nothing to do with my injury.”

Here’s an interview where he says the inijury “wasn’t the decision-maker” with regard to running for office again.

Second, Reid initially claimed the band broke then later claimed it slipped from his hand. And third, the location where the band was attached changed from a hook to a shower door:

He noted that Reid at first said the band broke, not that it slipped his grasp, and that it had been attached to a metal hook in the wall of the bathroom in his suburban Las Vegas home.

On the witness stand, Reid testified he looped a band through a shower door handle, not a hook, and that he spun around and fell face-first against hard-edged bathroom cabinets when it slipped from his grip on New Year’s Day 2015.

I walked through his shifting explanations on the band breaking here a couple of weeks ago.

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, after playing the clips showing Reid telling various stories that differed from his testimony in the case, Quiat concluded, “The one thing we do know is he struggles with telling the truth.” Well, duh.

But it seems the biggest problem with Reid’s case wasn’t his shifting stories, it was the fact that he couldn’t even prove the band he’d been using that day was manufactured by the people he had sued. That’s because his son threw it away after the accident.

Reid’s family threw out the band after he was hurt. Months later, he and [his wife Landra] Gould lodged a product liability lawsuit against three defendants: Hygenic Intangible Property Holding Co., the Hygenic Corp. and Performance Health LLC.

But jurors decided that the defendants did not manufacture the exercise band involved in Reid’s accident…

Asked whether the verdict may have been different if the band had not been discarded, Wilkes replied, “That’s called speculation. There’s no way I can say.”

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that even if he’d kept the band, he’d have lost this case. For one thing, the band would not have been broken as he initially claimed in media interviews. That would prove that the band itself hadn’t failed. What failed was Reid’s grip. But the defense had evidence that physical therapists had been working with Reid for months to get him to use a proper stance when using the band. Also, he should never have been exercising in a bathroom full of hard surfaces. There’s a reason gyms have wide spaces and rubberized floors.

Quiat, the attorney for the defendants, really summed up this case when he said, “This case is about taking responsibility for one’s own actions.” It’s unfortunate that after his long career as a leading Democrat, Harry Reid still hasn’t learned that lesson.

I thought Dirty Harry’s battered noggin was from the pop knots his bro put on him around the Holidays while enjoying adult beverages.

So Harry Reid is a liar. I'm shocked!..... NOT!

I don't think he knows how to tell the truth. He certainly never did while in the Senate.

Jim

Champagne anyone?

Reid always reminds me of him:

Wheres that pic of the kid pointing and saying "HA-HA!" Couldn't happen to a more deserving asswipe! Regards 18DAI

Did they give Reid a breathalyzer before he took the stand?

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Originally posted by 18DAI:
Wheres that pic of the kid pointing and saying "HA-HA!" Couldn't happen to a more deserving asswipe! Regards 18DAI

Nelson from The Simpson's:

Harry Reid is a proud known liar. Not sure if this came up during the case.

https://www.washingtonexaminer...t-mitt-romneys-taxes

Harry Reid, D-Nev. has no regrets about his 2012 claims that then presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid no taxes for 10 years.

The outgoing Senate Minority Leader even bragged to CNN that the comments, which had been described as McCarthyism, helped keep Romney from winning the election.

"They can call it whatever they want. Romney didn't win did he?" Reid said during a wide-ranging interview.


So, in Reid's world, it is perfectly acceptable to make a defamatory charge against an opponent to damage his campaign.

Reid first made the accusation against the former Massachusetts governor in a 2012 interview with the Huffington Post. At the time, Reid claimed that a Bain Capital investor told him Romney didn't pay taxes for the previous 10 years. This, Reid claimed, was why Romney hadn't released his tax returns.

"He didn't pay taxes for 10 years!" Reid said. "Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain, but obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?"

A few days after the HuffPo interview, Reid made the same charge on the Senate floor, this time claiming as fact that Romney paid no taxes.

"As we know, he has refused to release his tax returns. If a person coming before this body wanted to be a Cabinet officer, he couldn't be if he had the same refusal Mitt Romney does about tax returns," Reid said. "So the word is out that he has not paid any taxes for 10 years. Let him prove he has paid taxes, because he has not."

Even though Reid made a slanderous statement that Romney had in fact paid not taxes, without mentioning anything about his Bain source or skepticism, he cannot be sued for that particular statement. Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution states that members of Congress shall "be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other place." The only exceptions to this rule are for treason, felonies and "breach of the peace."

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Originally posted by OMCHamlin:
Are these deadly exercise bands very expensive? Could we do a group buy and send one to each (D) senator and representative? Factor in 10% more to gift one each to the RINOs...

priceless statement, i"m in.

I thought this vermin was 6 ft under long ago?

“problems telling the truth”

That’s putting it as nicely as possible

I had always believed that Happy Harry's injuries were the result of an "adjustment" by Rocko and Moose, for some promised thing he didn't deliver, or something he promised not to do that he did.

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Originally posted by 12131:
I thought this vermin was 6 ft under long ago?

His integrity was laid to rest long ago.

Clogging up the courts with bullshit like this, all to cover up a lie that no one gives a shit about. Fuckin' asshole.

Just fade away, dipshit. Fade away

The fumducker isn't even smart enough to remember his safe word when he hires somebody to rough him up so he wants compensation. I wonder what juicy smallbutt's safe word was with the Nigerian national boxing team - MAGA?

This what happens when a “person” tries to go back into society after spending a lifetime in the alternate world of politics. The non stop lies and deception, along with the general lack of trust and general loathing for this kind of sub-human being keep them for imposing their will on the public. Too bad they are not scrutinized this much when they are in office.