Former American President, Trump Sues CNN, Seeks $475M For Damages
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Former U.S. president
Donald Trump
sued CNN for defamation on Monday, seeking $475 million in punitive damages
and claiming the network had carried out a “campaign of libel and slander”
against him.
Trump claims in his lawsuit, filed in U.S. District
Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that CNN had used its considerable
influence as a leading news organization to defeat him politically.
CNN declined to comment on the case.
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Trump, a Republican, claims in the 29-page lawsuit that CNN had a long track
record of criticizing him but had ramped up its attacks in recent months
because the network feared that he would run again 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,'” the lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit lists several instances in which CNN appeared to
compare Trump to Hitler, including a January 2022 special report by host
Fareed Zakaria that included footage of the German dictator.
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Trump, who in 2020 lost a re-election bid to Democrat Joe Biden, has not said
whether he would seek re-election.
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