As promised, President Trump has sued CNN in federal court for defamation, seeking $475 million in punitive damages for a “campaign of libel and slander” against him.
Trump said he will “also be commencing actions against other media outlets who have defamed me and defrauded the public regarding the overwhelming evidence of fraud throughout the 2020 Election” as well as taking legal action against the Pelosi-Cheney January 6th committee witch hunt.
The lawsuit claims that 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 even 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.'”
The lawsuit lists several instances in which CNN actually compared Trump to Hitler, including a January 2022 special report on President Trump by host Fareed Zakaria that included actual footage of Hitler.
CNN must have known the lawsuit was coming because in recent weeks the new owner has instructed CNN reporters and news anchors to stop referring to the stolen election as the “big lie” – which is actually a phrase perfected by Adolf Hitler!
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “A lawsuit was filed today against CNN, the once prestigious news channel that has devolved into a purveyor of disinformation, defamation, and Fake News, at a level which the American Public, and indeed the World, will not even believe is possible.
For years I have watched this take place, often in disbelief, but the time has finally come to hold CNN responsible and legally accountable for their willful deception and defamatory statements made about me…”
In order to prove defamation in media cases – you have to prove they had actual malice. I’m guessing there is a HUGE file with examples of actual malice – the media constantly brags about how malicious they are. It’s taken years to gather the evidence against them – Trump plans to use their own words against them. Their bravado will be their downfall. Watch. It’s going to be glorious. Once one falls – they all fall.
Here is a link to the lawsuit: https://storage.courtlistener.
The next step after these lawsuits is to overturn the 1964 SCOTUS ruling in “New York Times vs Sullivan” – to stop the media, once and for all, from using defamation to rig elections.
Honeybee,
I’m glad I don’t read the NYT. Have a meaningful Yom Kippur.
stevenI I Another example of malicious lies is the NYT’s story denigrating Yeshivas
Go for it.
But journalists should be sued personally for malpractice.Is freedom to lie consistent with freedom of speech?
The MSM are complicit in crimes against humanity.