He claimed $475 million in damages
Trump files defamation complaint against CNN
Trump accuses CNN of tarnishing his reputation.
AFP
Former US President Donald Trump filed a complaint yesterday against CNN, accusing it of tarnishing his image, because it fears he will run for a new term in 2024, demanding $475 million in compensation.
The Republican, who is openly discussing the idea of running for the White House again, believes that CNN "sought to use its wide influence to defame him among its viewers and readers, with the aim of overpowering him politically," according to the text of the complaint filed in Florida. .
The complaint also stated that “the (CNN) campaign comes in the form of defamation and slander against the complainant, which escalated in the last month, because the station fears that the complainant will run for the presidential elections in 2024.”
Donald Trump accused the station of seeking to "swing the balance of politics to the left", by attempting to "tarnish its image through a series of false and shocking defamatory epithets, such as 'racist', 'servant of the Russians' and 'Hitler'."
Trump took to the station, especially the use of the phrase "the big lie", to talk about his saying that the presidential elections in 2020 were "stolen from him."
"(The Big Lie) is a direct reference to a tactic used by Adolf Hitler, and is contained in Mein Kampf," the complaint said.
"(The Big Lie) was used by Hitler to incite hatred against Jews, and it should not be used lightly," he added.
He stressed that the frequent use of that phrase on the station about Trump was "a deliberate attempt by CNN to establish a link in viewers' minds between the complainant and one of the most disgusting figures in recent history."
The complaint says the phrase has been used more than 7,700 times since January 2021.
Donald Trump is claiming $475 million in damages from the station.
In a statement, the former US president confirmed, Monday evening, that he will file a complaint against a “large number” of other media outlets in the coming weeks and months, for defamation as well.
He confirmed that he might also take action on the parliamentary committee investigating the attack by his supporters on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. During his presidential term, Trump had very strained relations with major media outlets, such as CNN and The New York Times. Which he considered to be promoting “fake news”.
He regularly uploaded it to Twitter, which he has since been banned from using.
Trump accuses the station of seeking to use its vast influence to defame him with its viewers and readers in order to defeat him politically.
Trump takes to the station to use the phrase “The Big Lie” 7,700 times to talk about his saying that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen from him.”
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