The National Telegraph as an up-and-coming independent news site reports on insider political scandals and corruption which puts us at risk of lawsuits from members of the political establishment.

The National Telegraph co-operator Wyatt Claypool has been fighting a lawsuit against a billionaire political insider for an article published by a guest writer which talked about Erin O'Toole and the person who filed the defamation lawsuit against Wyatt and TNT. 

Wyatt has been retaining former Alberta Justice Minister Jonathan Denis at Guardian Law to fight the defamation lawsuit. So far, Wyatt and TNT have been winning, filing around a dozen pieces of evidence to back up the claims of the published article, while the complainant in the case has filed only four pieces of "evidence" none of which shows any statements TNT published were defamatory or inaccurate. Based on the success so far Wyatt would like to push to win the case.

Up to this point Wyatt has paid over $15,000 in legal fees for this one case, but back in late 2020 and early 2021 paid another $5,000 to defend against another O'Toole-related lawsuit. This lawsuit thankfully has seemingly been resolved as the person who filed against TNT and TNT co-operator Daniel Bordman has not filed anything since TNT filed its statement of defense more than 2 years ago.

But due to the high costs incurred by Wyatt, we are looking to raise money in order to lighten the burden. The National Telegraph has never operated as a website that requires payment to read our articles or watch our videos, and we wish to keep it that way. But because we don't make money upfront on the website we are having to ask for donations in order to help us pay for the costs of publishing quality investigative journalism on topics other publications would not touch. 

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