Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Trump vs. CNN

A judge appointed by Donald Trump tossed a lawsuit filed by Trump against CNN.

Trump’s record in courts is awful, but he continues to file lawsuits and continues to lose.

He tried suing CNN for $475 million in a defamation case in which he argued that the cable network’s statements about his false 2020 election fraud claims likened him to Adolf Hitler.

Trump’s lawyers argued that CNN’s use of the phrase the “Big Lie,” in five specific incidents, incited “readers and viewers to hate, contempt, distrust, ridicule, and even fear” him. But U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who Trump appointed in 2019, reasoned that because all of CNN’s statements were opinion, Trump could not legally sue the network for defamation.

“Being ‘Hitler-like’ is not a verifiable statement of fact that would support a defamation claim,” Singhal wrote in his dismissal. “CNN’s statements while repugnant, were not, as a matter of law, defamatory.”

Singhal dismissed his lawsuit with prejudice, meaning Trump cannot file another lawsuit under the same reasoning.

H/T Politico