Donald Trump Threatens CNN With Lawsuit Over “Big Lie” Reporting; Ex-POTUS Wants “Full & Fair Retraction” ASAP
deadline.comFacing a potential Department of Justice probe over the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol and more legal quicksand, Donald Trump has gone on the offensive against old foe CNN with a threatened defamation suit. “This letter serves as formal notice of the false statements about President Donald J.
Trump (“President Trump”) in numerous articles and televised transmissions published by Cable News Network, Inc. (“CNN”) including, but not limited to, those discussed below,” reads a July 21 missive that the former POTUS’ DC attorneys at Ifrah Law, PLLC sent to CNN boss Chris Licht and EVP and General Counsel David Vigilante.
Specifically, the Kafkaesque correspondence focuses on on-air and online use by CNN marque talent and reporters of the term the “Big Lie” in regards to Trump’s repeated assertions that the 2020 election was stolen from him and the GOP. “In this instance, President Trump’s comments are not lies: He subjectively believes that the results of the 2020 presidential election turned on fraudulent voting activity in several key states,” the 282-page letter from the lawyers with exhibits goes on to say, using Webster’s Dictionary’s definition of the word “lie” to make their legally looming point. “Without regard for President Trump’s genuine belief in his statements, CNN has published numerous articles characterizing him as a ‘liar’ and the purveyor of the ‘Big Lie,'” the letter declares (read it here.) Over the past year and a half, Trump has continued to say that he was the winner of the 2020 presidential election, telling an audience as recently as Tuesday that he “won a second time.” (In its story on Trump’s speech in Washington, D.C., CNN referred to the former president’s statement as “lies around the
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