Trump's Escapades

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   peoplepower73posted 24 months ago

   This forum is intended as a running account of Trump's efforts to clear himself of all guilt,.  This  includes, but is not just limited to Jan. 6 and the classified documents cover-up..Feel free to comment as appropriate.
   
   
   Donald Trump CNN Lawsuit Tossed - A federal court in Florida tossed former President's law suit.
   
   Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking $75 million in compensatory damages and $475 million in punitive damages from CNN due to the network’s coverage comparing him with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis with prejudice. The former president is barred from filing a similar suit in the future.
   
   Donald Trump Lost in Court, Again
   
   Trump filed the suit in October. The former president claimed that statements made during the 2016 election infringed his rights and did serious “damage to his reputation.” It suggested that CNN pushed the comparison with malice and had the intent of pushing him out of office.
   
   District Court Judge U.S. District Judge Anuraag “Raag” Singhal  ruled, “Trump complains that CNN described his election challenges as ‘the Big Lie.’ Trump argues that ‘the Big Lie’ is a phrase attributed to Joseph Goebbels and that CNN’s use of the phrase wrongly links Trump with the Hitler regime in the public eye. This is a stacking of inferences that cannot support a finding of falsehood.”
   
   Singhal, a Trump appointee, examined five instances where the former president was either called a “Nazi” or compared with Hitler. He looked at a Jan. 25, 2021 opinion column by Ruth Ben-Ghiat that called him a “leader of authoritarian tendencies and intentions”; a July 5, 2021 column that likened Trump to Joseph Goebbels; a Sept. 15, 2021 CNN column that claimed Trump pushes ‘The Big Lie’; a Jan. 16, 2022 episode of ‘State of the Union’ that again accused Trump of pushing ‘The Big Lie’ about the 2020 election; and a Feb. 11, 2022 column by CNN Political Editor Chris Cilizza that again accused Trump of ‘The Big Lie.’”
   
   
   Trump's Claim Doesn’t Fit Florida State Law
   Singhal examined Florida state law that says pure opinion is “not actionable” when it comes to defamation.
   
   “’When applying state defamation law to public figures, the First Amendment imposes additional limitations.’ ... The statement in dispute ‘must be ‘sufficiently factual to be susceptible of being proved true or false,’” Singhal wrote. “Next, “the statement must be actually false.” Id. Finally, … the statement must have been made with ‘actual malice,’ that is “with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.”

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