President Trump Sues CNN for $475 Million

President Donald J. Trump, has been a long-time critic of the Defendant, Cable News Network, Inc. (“CNN”)—not because CNN does a bad job of reporting the news, but because CNN seeks to create the news (“fake news,” as the Plaintiff has characterized it in public statements). Beyond simply highlighting any negative information about the Plaintiff and ignoring all positive information about him, CNN has sought to use its massive influence— purportedly as a “trusted” news source—to defame the Plaintiff in the minds of its viewers and readers for the purpose of defeating him politically, culminating in CNN claiming credit for “[getting] Trump out” in the 2020 presidential election. CNN’s campaign of dissuasion in the form
of libel and slander against the Plaintiff has only escalated in recent months as CNN fears the Plaintiff will run for president in 2024. As a part of its concerted effort to tilt the political balance to the Left, CNN has tried to taint the Plaintiff with a series of ever-more scandalous, false, and defamatory labels of “racist,” “Russian lackey,” “insurrectionist,” and ultimately “Hitler.”

These labels are neither hyperbolic nor opinion: these are repeatedly reported as true fact, with purported factual support, by allegedly “reputable” newscasters, acting not merely with reckless disregard for the truth of their statements (sufficient to meet the definition of the legal standard for “actual malice”) but acting with real animosity for the Plaintiff and seeking to cause him true harm (the way “actual malice” commonly is understood). CNN has been given the dreaded “Pants on Fire!” designation by PolitiFact for its stories comparing Trump to Hitler. Still, it persists, requiring the time and expense of filing the instant lawsuit”

Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America pic.twitter.com/ijxXq1pwPj

— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) October 4, 2022

Trump wants big money from CNN for wrecking his reputation and career

By: RT News, Ocot 4, 2022:

Trump is demanding $475m for weaponizing its reputation as a “reliable source” to destroy his own. He filed the suit on Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida: “Beyond simply highlighting any negative information about Trump and ignoring all positive information about him, CNN has sought to use its massive influence —purportedly as a ‘trusted’ news source — to defame Trump in the minds of its viewers and readers for the purpose of defeating him politically,” the suit argues…

It continues: CNN used scandalous labels to destroy the former president’s image for its audience, denouncing him as a “racist,” “Russian lackey,” “insurrectionist,” and of course “Hitler.” The latter, at least, rises to the level of “actual malice,” Trump claimed, referring to the standard required for a public figure to claim defamation in the US.

The lawsuit furnishes numerous examples of CNN’s anti-Trump vitriol, pointing out that even infamously Trump-averse platforms like fact-checker Politifact have given CNN the “dreaded ‘Pants On Fire!’ designation” over its Hitler comparisons – of which over 645 were found in a scan of Westlaw’s news database.

As a result of CNN’s constant “Trump is Hitler” narrative, its audience has irrevocably linked the two, the lawsuit charges, describing that outcome as irrevocably detrimental to his political career. It cites Project Veritas’ undercover camera footage from CNN HQ, in which network employees boast their coverage was both intended to motivate their audience to vote him out and responsible for that ultimate result.

CNN not only caused Trump “damage to his reputation, embarrassment, pain, humiliation, and mental anguish,” according to the lawsuit, but did so out of spite and aware they were lying, having reportedly refused to correct a list of “false and defamatory statements” Trump’s legal team sent them in July. Trump’s lawyers have demanded a removal of compensatory damage limits, $475m in punitive damages, payment of legal and travel fees, and a trial by jury.

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