Court rejects Trump’s lawsuit against CNN
The ex-president had filed a complaint against the chain, to which he claimed 475 million dollars. The judge, whom Trump had appointed himself, ruled that it was not defamation.
PostedJuly 29, 2023, 5:52 PM
Donald Trump said CNN draws comparisons between Hitler and him.
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A federal judge in Florida has dismissed Donald Trump’s defamation suit against CNN, in which the former US president sought $475 million in damages from the channel. The ex-president particularly criticized CNN for using the expression “the Big Lie” to talk about his allegations that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from him by Joe Biden. He felt that in doing so, the channel was trying to “smear” him and draw comparisons between Adolf Hitler, Nazism and him.
Reference to “Mein Kampf”
Donald Trump, the big favorite of the Republicans for the race for the White House, had filed a complaint against CNN in October. According to his complaint, the “Big Lie” is a direct reference to a tactic employed by Adolf Hitler and appearing in the Führer’s book “my fight». Throughout his tenure, the former Republican president, now surrounded by business and indicted by the courts, had an abysmal relationship with mainstream media like CNN and the New York Timeswhich he dubbed “fake news” media.
On Friday evening, Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Donald Trump, dismissed the complaint, considering that CNN’s remarks were not defamatory because they constituted an opinion. “CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” he wrote.
(AFP)
2023-07-29 15:52:22
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