President Trump sued CNN on Monday for defamation. The Republican president seeks $475 million in damages.
CNN led the media mob in its baseless accusations that candidate and President Trump was a stooge for Putin and Russia.
The allegations were later found to be based on efforts by the Hillary Clinton campaign to smear Donald Trump.
The Stasi-FBI ran an attempted coup against Trump knowing the allegations of his ties to Russia were fraudulent.
Bloomberg reported:
Former President Donald Trump sued CNN for defamation, claiming the cable news network has escalated a campaign of libel and slander against him recently because it fears he’ll run for re-election in 2024.
CNN has attempted to taint Trump “with a series of ever-more scandalous, false, and defamatory labels of ‘racist,’ ‘Russian lackey,’ ‘insurrectionist,’ and ultimately ‘Hitler,’” the former president’s lawyers said in the suit filed Monday in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Trump is seeking at least $475 million in damages, according to the filing.
CNN has tainted Trump’s image by using “ever-more scandalous” labels to describe him in broadcasts, including “racist,” “Russian lackey,” and “insurrectionist,” culminating in false comparisons to the late Nazi leader, according to a suit filed Monday in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Comparing Trump to “arguably the most heinous figure in modern history” is evidence that CNN had “actual malice” toward him — the required threshold for proving defamation against a public figure, Trump’s lawyers claim.
Trump, who has long clashed with CNN over its reports on his behavior and policies, is seeking at least $475 million in damages.
Trump hasn’t shied away from suing his perceived enemies since leaving office, though he’s had limited success. His suit accusing his 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton and dozens of others of conspiring against him with allegedly fake Russia claims was tossed out by a Florida judge last month.
“The time has finally come to hold CNN responsible and legally accountable for their willful deception and defamatory statements made about me and both, directly and indirectly, my strong, devoted, and patriotic supporters,” Trump said in an emailed statement.
The complaint points to several examples of Trump allegedly being compared unfairly to Hitler, including a special report called “The Fight to Save Democracy” by CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria that aired on Jan. 9, 2022, about a year after Jan. 6 insurrection.
“America has vanquished demagogues before. So how do we do it now?” Zakaria said in a promotion for the report, according to the complaint.