Donald Trump Sues CNN for Defamation, Seeks $475 Million in Damages

Donald Trump is pursuing CNN in court — declaring the network disparaged him out of worry that he’ll run for president once again … and he’s requesting a considerable amount of money over it.

The ex-prez simply submitted a federal claim versus the network, declaring it’s been pressing a great deal of slanderous rhetoric about him these previous couple years — and he states it’s all an effort to paint him in the worst possible light in anticipation of a 2024 run.

According to the docs, acquired by TMZ, Trump is pissed about specific labels he states CNN has actually utilized to explain him — consisting of “racist,” “Russian lackey,” “insurrectionist” and even contrasts to “Hitler.” Those words just go too far in Trump’s mind, and he thinks they make up libel.

We need to keep in mind … Trump’s lawyers make a point about the declared Hitler jabs, arguing CNN’s duplicated usage of the expression “The Big Lie” when referencing Trump objecting to the 2020 election outcomes is in fact a direct recommendation to a term utilized by Hitler to prompt disliked of Jews and validate the genocide of the Holocaust.

So, in their minds, they see this as CNN associating Trump with Hitler by utilizing the very same term.

There’s likewise this quote that define his beef … “Beyond simply highlighting any negative information about the plaintiff and ignoring all positive information about him, 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.”

Trump’s group states CNN has actually blurred the line in between viewpoint and news … declaring it’s now reporting these features of him as straight-out reality, which he states is a legal no-no. DT is looking for damages north of $475,000,000.