Former President Donald Trump Sued CNN For Defamation
According to a lawsuit filed on Monday, former president Donald Trump is suing CNN for defamation and seeking $475 million in punitive damages in addition to compensatory damages exceeding $75,000.
He asserts that CNN’s actions “are intended to interfere with [his] political career” and that the cable news juggernaut has damaged his reputation with “false, libelous, and inflammatory mischaracterizations of him.”
Trump specifically claims that CNN’s use of the term the “Big Lie” to represent his “stated worries about the integrity of the election process for the 2020 presidential election” qualifies him for hundreds of millions of dollars in punitive damages.
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