) The former president of the United States Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the CNN network on Monday alleging an alleged defamation against his person, also demanding compensation of 475 million dollars (a similar figure in euros) from the media outlet.
The lawsuit, which has been filed in federal court in Florida, argues that “beyond simply highlighting any negative information about the plaintiff (Donald Trump) and ignoring all positive information about him, CNN has sought to use its enormous influence, purportedly as a ‘reliable’ news source, to smear the plaintiff in the minds of his viewers.”
Likewise, Trump’s legal team has pointed out that these “defamations” have only “increased in recent months”, assuring that CNN “fears” that Trump will run for the 2024 presidential elections. “As part of his In a concerted effort to tip the political balance to the left, CNN has tried to smear the plaintiff with a series of increasingly outrageous, false and defamatory labels of ‘racist’, ‘Russian lackey’, ‘insurrectionist’ and finally , ‘Hitler'”, added the lawsuit by Trump’s lawyers.
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To prove these claims, the former US president has attached some articles and excerpts from the network’s programming in which Trump’s proposals are compared to Adolf Hitler’s incitement to hatred against Jews.
In order to vindicate his “reputation as a public servant”, Trump has demanded that CNN assume the costs of the damage it has caused him through “incendiary defamation” for an amount of 483 million euros.
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