Trump Sues CNN For $475M

He's saying the network had defamed him in an effort to short-circuit any future political campaign.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, focuses primarily on the term “The Big Lie” about Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud that he says cost him the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden.

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MistyCee

Here's a link to the complaint.

https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-v-cnn/

It's being widely touted as legal garbage, although it actually reads like fodder for ripping up not just the Sullivan standard, but pretty much all of defamation law if he can find the "right" judge(s) willing to destroy the free press for him.

On the other hand, the graphics and formatting are pretty cool looking.

Northwest · M

@MistyCee It is legal garbage. This, like all his other suits, will be dismissed, but it will be used in the email the MAGA crowd is receiving now, asking for donations.

MistyCee

@Northwest Yeah, good point. I keep forgetting how much of Trump's stuff is about fundraising/money laundering as opposed to more outright political or legal manuvering.

In that vein, I think this complaint is actually pretty impressive. As Trump burns through ethical lawyers and human beings, he actually does seem to be building a new purer set of minions devoted to not just Trump, but also, Trumpism, and the promotion of image over substance or principle.

I really hope Trusty and Halligan get held accountable for this, but its likely as foolish a hope as the one I had that Trump wouldn't have won in 2016.