Kamala HQ deletes post making false claims about Tim Pool after successful conclusion to lawsuit

YouTuber Tim Pool’s lawsuit against Kamala HQ, which represents and posts on behalf of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign on X, reached a successful conclusion on Friday. While the details of the settlement have not been made public, Pool posted that he was “satisfied” with the result along with a screen capture showing that the allegedly defaming post from Kamala HQ had been deleted. In his suit against the campaign, Pool had asked for a retraction: the deletion of the post is essentially that.

“The lawsuit between I, Tim Pool, and The Kamala Harris Campaign has been resolved to my satisfaction,” he said. “Thank You.” One of the things his suit against the campaign alleged was that he had suffered “reputational harm” at the hands of the Kamala campaign. The deletion of their post, while it does not fully repair that damage, reveals that the campaign has been made fully aware of their falsehood against Pool.

In response to the post, Pool said “I have engaged legal counsel. We are preparing to take action. More to come.” That “more” came when Pool filed a suit against Kamala Harris’ campaign, taking aim at every one of their allegations and discrediting them. 

“Trump operatives say their Project 2025 plan is to give Trump total, unchecked legal power so they can jail and execute those who don’t support Trump if he wins,” Kamala Harris’ campaign posted on X, along with an out-of-context clip, noting by way of accusation that “They have since scrubbed this video from YouTube.”

Pool stated that he was never associated with the Heritage Foundation or their massive publication called Project 2025, that he opposes capital punishment and always has, and that the video in question was not “scrubbed” as the campaign said but was removed by Pool due the potential interpretation of comments made by a guest on the show to be calls for violence.

“I feel that the lies from the Kamala campaign have become so shockingly, shockingly egregious, they strike at the conscience of any good, rational American,” Pool said. 

“We are preparing a lawsuit against the Kamala Harris campaign due to a defamatory statement posted on X which is extreme, egregious,” Pool continued at the time, “and I just got to say, outright psychotic in accusing me, me personally, as well as Laura Loomer, but we are two separate individuals, of calling for unchecked legal power so that they, meaning Trump and his allies, can jail and execute anyone who doesn’t support Trump if he wins, which is a shocking and egregious lie that goes so far beyond the pale. I, well, I just can’t even. It’s shocking and downright insane.”

Kamala HQ’s most recent post was on November 6, the day after Election Day when Harris lost her bid to occupy the Oval Office and the White House. While the description of the account claims to be to “provide context,” much of what the account posted during the 107 day campaign were out of context clips and attempts at “gotchas” for their opposition politicians. Kamala HQ noted upon its July 21 launch that it was “the official rapid response page of Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign,” meaning that anything and everything the account posted was sanctioned by Harris.

The account was so egregious in its false claims that another account popped up to fact-check it called Kamala HQ Lies. That account has since been rebranded to Media Lies, but during the campaign, it repeatedly pointed out the times the account told blatant falsehoods about Trump, his potential staffers, his campaign, or his supporters.

One huge lie that was repeated by Kamala HQ was that Trump, once elected, would implement a federal abortion ban. Trump has said consistently that he would not do this. The campaign said that Trump was working off of the Project 2025 playbook, which again was not true. They claimed Trump asked to “hit Michelle Obama,” that Trump would be a dictator, that he wanted to bring back laws from the 18th century, that he called for the execution of his political opponents, that Trump threatened to shoot Liz Cheney, that Vice President-elect JD Vance wants to abolish gay marriage, that Trump would impose a 20% sales tax on all Americans, and so many others.

Harris lied about Trump’s position on IVF, his attendance at a memorial service for soldiers who died under her watch, his position on the military, and repeated debunked lies about her opposition. She has also lied about conservatives and Republicans who support Trump, such as Kirk, whom she called a “MAGA operative.” When Pool announced the suit, Kirk said “Good. This account is getting out of control. So much is verifiably inaccurate, there must be accountability.”

The defamation suit was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia and stated that “The Harris Campaign did not hedge this statement or couch it as opinion. To the contrary, to any reasonable reader, the Harris Campaign was saying that Mr. Pool wants to suspend the Constitution, make President Trump dictator, and use state power to imprison and kill Mr. Pool and President Trump’s political opponents.”

“According to the Harris Campaign then, Mr. Pool’s ‘plan’ is to imitate one of the hallmarks of the most abhorrent, murderous regimes of the past and present,” it went on to say.

As for Kamala HQ, the suit alleged that what the Harris campaign published “was and is a lie” and emphasized that Pool “has never advocated for the lawless, extrajudicial killing of his (or anyone else’s) political opponents, to include in the video clip the Harris Campaign incorporated into its X post.”

 

“Both the clip and its context demonstrate Mr. Pool’s commitment to civil liberties, which is consistent with his past criticisms of drone strikes involving American citizens in the War on Terrorism. Shocked by the Harris Campaign’s malicious disregard for the truth, Mr. Pool almost immediately threatened legal action, but the post and the deception it creates remains to this day.”

Pool, the suit said, had suffered “reputational harm” that would “take millions of dollars to undo.” That reptutational harm is alleged to be with viewers and potential guests, who, the suit stated, “are now less likely to appear on Mr. Pool’s shows, despite his effort to build bridges for discussion and debate.”

“In this regard, Mr. Pool has put millions of dollars where his mouth is,” the suit read, “purchasing high-impact advertising in his native Chicago and New York City’s Times Square to raise awareness of his show above the very streets on which he took on corporatism in an effort to reach many of the same people he once considered friends and allies. To counter the effects of the Harris Campaign’s disinformation, Mr. Pool will have to spend millions of dollars to win an audience with those who now falsely believe he wants a dictatorship that will imprison and execute his political opponents.”

The lawsuit also said that following the post, “a man showed up at a property owned by Mr. Pool. One of Mr. Pool’s employees reported  being assaulted by the man. Upon information and belief, the alleged assailant knew about the Harris Campaign’s post, which served as inspiration for the unexpected visit. Mr. Pool is now working to secure round-the-clock security for himself and others shaken by this event. These security measures will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

“Mr. Pool cannot stand idly by while the Harris Campaign’s lie continues to fester, inflaming the public while harming his reputation and cutting him off from those he wants to reach and persuade,” the suit said.

Pool appears to be the only one other that Kamala HQ Lies to hold the campaign’s feet to the fire and actually bring his claims to the legal system, where the campaign was forced to delete the post. While it doesn’t change the fact that the accusations were made, it shows that the campaign had to admit that they were wrong, that they had published false claims, and back it up by removing the offending content.

Pool has not only been targeted by Kamala Harris’ campaign, but also was the recent target of a hit piece from The New York Times, which was also targeting Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, The Babylon Bee, Benny Johnson, Charlie Kirk and other influencers who are either heterodox or conservative. The Times’ reporter reached out after a report from Media Matters, which is itself a far-leftist non-profit that targets political opponents of the left with smear campaigns, to ask about their monetary and financial relationships with YouTube. The requests for comment from The Times reporter seemed to be veiled threats to target their work with YouTube, a large source of revenue for these creators.

When contacted by The Times reporter about the “election content” broadcast by these controversial creators, YouTube backed the creators, saying “What’s important to use is that we’re representing a broad spectrum of views.”

Though the rest of the details about the end of the lawsuit between Pool and the Kamala Harris’ campaign are unknown, the fact that there was a win there, as well as with YouTube—which didn’t listen to the tattle-tales at The Times but backed their high-earning contrarian creators—shows at least a bit of a correction in the far-left monopoly on the marketplace of ideas.

Libby Emmons is a frequent guest of Timcast IRL.