It didn't take long for coal baron Robert E. Murray to sue John Oliver: It was just days ago that Oliver ripped into the coal industry on Sunday's Last Week Tonight, and by Wednesday, Murray had filed a lawsuit against Oliver, the writers of the show, HBO, and Time Warner, the Daily Beast reports.
Oliver focused on President Trump "lying" to coal miners: "Stop telling them that their jobs are all coming back when they’re not. Stop telling them that coal is clean when it isn’t. And stop pretending that this isn’t an industry in the middle of a painful—albeit necessary—transition." But during the segment, he also ripped into Murray for, per Oliver, not doing enough to safeguard his miners.
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