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Trump Sues CNN for Defamation, asks $475 Million in Punitive Damages

Former US president Donald Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against CNN, claiming the network had engaged in a “campaign of libel and slander” against him and sought $475 million in punitive damages.

In his lawsuit, Trump alleges that CNN utilized its tremendous influence as a preeminent news outlet to undermine him politically. The case was filed in US District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. CNN chose not to comment on the situation.

Republican Trump says in the 29-page complaint that despite CNN’s lengthy history of attacking him, it has intensified these attacks in recent months because of concern that he would seek the presidency again in 2024. To shift the political scales to the left, the lawsuit claims that CNN made a concerted effort to paint the plaintiff with a string of scandalous, false, and defamatory labels, including “racist,” “Russian lackey,” “insurrectionist,” and ultimately “Hitler.”

In the lawsuit, CNN is accused of comparing Trump to Hitler on numerous occasions, including in a Fareed Zakaria-hosted special program from January 2022 that featured a video of the German dictator. Trump has not indicated if he would run for re-election. He lost the 2020 race to Democrat Joe Biden. The former president announced in a statement that he would file lawsuits “in the coming weeks and months” against other significant media organizations. Additionally, he suggested that he would file a lawsuit against a congressional panel investigating the assault by his supporters on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Since he continued to maintain government records at his Florida mansion Mar-a-Lago after leaving office in January 2021, the 76-year-old former president is the subject of a criminal investigation by the US Justice Department.

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Trump is accused of deceiving banks and insurance companies about the value of his properties, according to Leticia James, the attorney general for the state of New York, who launched a complaint against him last month.

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