Hayes Brown: Trump's lawsuit against CNN is less a case of defamation and more a case of crying 'they were mean to me.'
Which brings us to the suit’s final argument: that CNN has allowed Democrats to doubt the validity of election results, especially after Trump’s win in 2016, without getting the “Big Lie” label, showing CNN’s political bias. The difference here,, is that when the Russia investigation concluded, Democrats stopped making wild claims that the facts couldn’t bear out.
There are no recent cases among those Trump's lawyers cited that deal with a media outlet harming a public figure’s political future, as Trump’s lawyers are arguing CNN has done. Given the rather large number of examples where media reporting has tanked a political candidate, you’d think these legal eagles would have something to quote in their favor beyond aAll told, this is less a case of defamation and more a case of crying “they were mean to me.
It's ironic that they will have a harder time making such a case given recent precedent in a case brought against Fox News. A federal judge in 2020 ruled that Fox host Tucker Carlson and the network that airsbecause of the opinionated nature of his show. Many of the examples that Trump's lawyer cite in the filing are either outright opinion or clearly labeled analysis based on things Trump himself actually did.
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