A federal judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by former President Donald Trump against CNN on Saturday, after Trump argued the cable network had unfairly attacked him in recent years—the latest failed defamation claim by the former president, who has frequently deployed similar lawsuits against his adversaries.
District Judge Raag Singhai—who announced his decision Saturday—dismissed a claim by Trump that CNN used the phrase “the Big Lie” in connection with Trump’s false claims about voter fraud while allegedly likening him to Adolf Hitler.
The network’s use of the phrase “does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” Singhai wrote, noting “no reasonable viewer could (or should) plausibly make that reference.”
Singhai—a Trump appointee who serves in the Southern District of Florida—also added that being “Hitler-like” was not “a verifiable statement of fact that would support a defamation claim.”
A Trump campaign spokesperson told CNN on Saturday that it agreed with Singha— who said any Nazi reference “in the political discourse” was “odious and repugnant”—while suggesting the network would “be held responsible for the wrongful mistreatment” of Trump.
$475 million. That’s how much Trump was seeking in punitive damages.
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