Trump sues CNN claiming defamation, seeks $475 million in punitive damages

Former US president Donald Trump sued CNN for defamation on Monday, in search of $475 million in punitive damages and claiming the community had carried out a “campaign of libel and slander” in opposition to him.

Trump claims in his lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that CNN had used its appreciable affect as a number one information group to defeat him politically.

CNN declined to touch upon the case.

Trump, a Republican, claims within the 29-page lawsuit that CNN had an extended observe report of criticizing him however had ramped up its assaults in latest months as a result of the community feared that he would run once more 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 a number of cases through which CNN appeared to match Trump to Hitler, together with a January 2022 particular report by host Fareed Zakaria that included footage of the German dictator.

Trump, who in 2020 misplaced a re-election bid to Democrat Joe Biden, has not stated whether or not he would search re-election.

In an announcement, the previous president stated he could be submitting lawsuits in opposition to different main media corporations “in the coming weeks and months,” and that he might even take motion in opposition to a congressional committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.

The lawsuit comes because the 76-year-old former president faces appreciable authorized woes, together with a legal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for retaining authorities data at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida after leaving workplace in January 2021.

Trump was sued final month by New York state Attorney General Leticia James, who has accused him of mendacity to banks and insurers over the worth of his belongings.

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