Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit towards CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida

A federal decide has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed towards CNN during which the previous U.S. president claimed that references in information articles or by the community’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to evaluating him to Adolf Hitler.

Trump had been looking for punitive damages of $475 million within the federal lawsuit filed final October in South Florida, claiming the references harm his repute and political profession. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what’s his third run for the presidency.

U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, mentioned Friday in his ruling that the previous president’s defamation claims failed as a result of the references had been opinions and never factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to imagine that, in viewers’ minds, that phrase would join Trump’s efforts difficult the 2020 election outcomes to Nazi propaganda or Hitler’s genocidal and authoritarian regime, the decide mentioned.

“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” the decide wrote in his resolution.