Trump sues CNN for defamation, demanding $475 million

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Former US President Donald Trump sued CNN on Monday, accusing it of defaming him out of fear the Republican will run for president again in 2024, demanding $475 million in damages.

CNN, one of the main television networks in the United States "tried to use its enormous influence - as a

source of information - to smear the whistleblower before its viewers and readers with the purpose of defeating him politically," according to the 29-page complaint filed. in Florida.

"As part of its concerted effort to tip the political scales to the left, CNN sought to tarnish the whistleblower with a series of increasingly outrageous, false and defamatory labels of 'racism', 'Russian lackey', 'insurrectionist' and finally 'Hitler,'" the complaint states.

Throughout his term, the former Republican president had a terrible relationship with large American media such as CNN and The New York Times, which he baptized as creators of

(false information).

Trump generally attacked them via Twitter, a network from which he was subsequently banned.

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