donald trump Has sued Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.obsessed WBD CNN and is seeking $475 million in punitive damages and more than $75,000 in compensatory damages.
What happened: The former president claimed in a lawsuit that seen by CBS News that the cable news network had tarnished its reputation with “false, defamatory, and inflammatory mischaracterizations of him.”
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, eventually people will believe it,” Trump’s attorneys said, according to the report.
“CNN’s deterrent campaign of libel and libel against the [Trump] has only escalated in recent months, as CNN fears [he] will run for President in 2024.”
The case was filed in the Southern District of Florida and assigned to the Trump-appointed judge Raj Singhalaccording to CBS News.
A CNN representative did not immediately respond to gasoline gas’s request for comment.
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Why it matters: Trump’s legal team said the intent behind CNN’s behavior was “to intervene [his] political career,” reported CBS News.
Trump called CNN a “once prestigious news channel that has morphed into a purveyor of disinformation, slander and fake news” on Truth Social.
Screenshot of Donald Trump’s social truth profile
The former US leader has said that in the coming weeks and months he will be filing lawsuits against a number of other “fake news media companies” for their lies, defamation and wrongdoing, including in relation to “The Big Lie” – which Trump claimed as Reference to their “disinformation attack” on the 2020 presidential election.
truth is social Trump media and technology groupa company that is to go public through a merger Digital World Acquisition Corp. DWAC.
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