{"id":57553,"date":"2023-07-29T11:33:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T18:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57553"},"modified":"2023-07-29T11:33:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T18:33:37","slug":"trumps-big-lie-lawsuit-against-cnn-tossed-by-court-because-truth-is-not-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57553","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ Lawsuit Against CNN Tossed By Court Because Truth is Not Defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most litigious president in American history is unquestionably Donald Trump. He has a penchant for suing anyone and everyone, generally without any legal merit, as a means of retribution and to punish his political enemies for daring to challenge his delusional divinity.<\/p>\n

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Trump’s most frequent attempts to abuse the court system have been through his challenges to the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. He and his associates lost at least sixty such lawsuits, mostly for failing utterly to provide a shred of evidence supporting his baseless assertions of voter fraud. The parade of frivolous litigation came to be referred to by politicians and the press as Trump’s “Big Lie.”<\/em> And that triggered the perpetually perturbed Trump to file a lawsuit against CNN for defamation.<\/p>\n

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On Friday Trump’s case against CNN was thrown out of court for failing to present any argument that the reporting by CNN wasn’t actually true. According to Deadline<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

“A federal judge dismissed Donald Trump\u2019s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, litigation centered on references made by on-air figures to \u201cthe Big Lie,\u201d or the former president\u2019s unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.<\/p>\n

Trump had argued in his lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, that the references to the phrase were defamatory as they created a \u201cfalse and incendiary association\u201d between him and Adolf Hitler.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, a Trump appointee, ruled that the lawsuit cited CNN segments that were merely “a stacking of inferences that cannot support a finding of falsehood.”<\/em> In other words, Trump could not prove that describing his unfounded claims of election fraud as the “Big Lie”<\/em> was untrue. And as always, truth is the best defense against defamation. CNN’s reporting, according to the court, was lawful opinion, and Trump failed to make a plausible argument that it was in any way false.<\/p>\n

The court also appropriately refused to entertain Trump’s complaint that associating him with a phrase that has been attributed to Hitler’s Nazi propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, was defamatory. How could it be when such associations are objectively true. Trump has been a far more prolific and flagrant disseminator of lies and propaganda than the Nazi regime. If anything, Hitler might have a better case of defamation for being associated with Trump.<\/p>\n

Many of Trump’s misadventures in legal malpractice involve the media. He is especially anxious to try to muzzle the free press that he believes is out to get him. Consequently, he has sued everyone from CNN, to the Washington Post, to Twitter, and more. He even sued the Pulitzer board for awarding prizes to newspapers that honestly reported on his unsavory ties to Russia.<\/p>\n

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Trump has yet to prevail in of his defamation lawsuits. That’s because he has never even bothered to present a coherent argument that he was defamed or suffered any damages to his already repugnant reputation. It has always been a poorly staged melodrama of malice meant to bully those he hated or feared. And his record of losses is the best evidence of his disingenuous intent. Yet somehow, he persists in these losing causes no matter how many times he is struck down in humiliation.<\/p>\n

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