Donald Trump sues CNN for 475 million dollars (483 million euros), accusing the television station of carrying out a “campaign of defamation and slander” against him, Reuters advances.
Filed in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida court, the defamation lawsuit signed by the former US president accuses CNN of having used its enormous influence as a news leader to defeat him politically.
In the 29-page lawsuit, Trump alleges that the station has a long history of attacks against him, with an alleged escalation in recent months. At stake, he says, will be the fear CNN that Trump will run for president again in 2024.
“As part of a concerted effort to tip the political balance to the left, CNN attempted to smear the plaintiff with a series of increasingly outrageous, false and defamatory labels of ‘racist’, ‘Russian lackey’, ‘insurrectionist’ and finally, ‘Hitler,’” the suit says. According to Reuters, the lawsuit includes a list of times the channel compared Trump to the Nazi leader.
Donald Trump, who said he would sue many of the major American media companies (and who has always had problems with the largest channels and newspapers in the United States, accusing them of promoting fake news), is involved in a criminal investigation, carried out by carried out by the United States Department of Justice for bringing government records to his property in Mar-A-Lago, Florida, after losing the election to Joe Biden in early 2021.
Source: Observadora
