Donald Trump sued CNN, seeking $475 million in damages for defamation
Donald Trump sued CNN, seeking $475 million in damages for defamation
In big news this week, President Donald Trump has been embroiled in a major defamation lawsuit against mainstream media outlet CNN.
According to Bloomberg, the 45th president is seeking $475 million in damages for claiming that CNN published defamatory and defamatory statements against him.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Fort Lauderdale, denounces CNN as “fake news” and accuses the company of using “extreme influence” to “defame the plaintiff in the minds of its viewers” and readers with the intent to defeat him politically, CNN 2020 Claims credit for ‘kicking out Trump’ in 2018’s presidential election.
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The lawsuit further states that the campaign by CNN, in the form of defamation and slander, has only increased in recent months as CNN fears that Badri will run for president in 2024.
As part of a concerted effort to manipulate the political balance, CNN has attempted to tarnish and shame the left with even more stigmatizing, false, and defamatory labels of ‘racist,’ ‘Russian stooge,’ ‘revolutionary,’ and finally ‘Hitler.’
“Such retraction does not comply with plaintiff’s claim for retraction of defamatory statements by publication.” It also noted that CNN. The filing also lists other statements from CNN’s Fallen Manali against the president, which are specific to the network.
Also provided were screenshots, quotes from CNN, and highlights from shows hosted by pundits like Anderson Cooper and Brian Stelter.
As previously reported by RSBN, in July, President Trump announced his intention to file a lawsuit against CNN for “repeating defamatory statements” and suggested that he would “take action against other media outlets who have defamed me and overwhelming evidence.” has deceived the public about Fraud throughout the 2020 election.
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