crowds," he said. Another of Mr. Thiel's contentious ideas was destroying Gawker, the online publisher. He secretly financed the privacy lawsuit that Hulk Hogan, the former pro wrestler, filed against the media company, which Mr. Hogan won. That led to Gawker's bankruptey in 2016. A news operation that specia

shield for the Gawker founder in the $140 million Hulk Hogan judgment. Denton said he's now refocusing on the

ry other year. (WSJ-subscription) Charles Harder, Hulk Hogan's lawyer in the successful Gawker lawsuit funded by

utheast, Inc. versus Australian Warehouses Condominium 4 case. Bollea, if I recall correctly, is A Association case. But not so much for the S Hulk Hogan from wrestling. Court's position that it's taking as it 6 MS. ROCKEHBACH: Correct. relates to waiver, which the Court will use 7 THE COURT: But

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ro. A pro wrestling fan who became a World Wrestling Entertainment supporter and personality (inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame), Trump lived, like Hulk Hogan, as a real-life fictional character. To the amusement of his friends, and unease of many of the people now preparing to work for him at the highest l

now say about them. Kushner, in the middle of October, would, curiously, add to his legal team Charles Harder, the libel lawyer who had defended both Hulk Hogan in his libel suit against Gawker, the Internet gossip site, and Melania Trump in her suit against the Daily Mail. The implied threat to media and to