Subhechcha Ganguly 
Donald Trump, a former president of the United States, filed a defamation lawsuit against CNN on Monday. He requested $475 million in punitive damages and said the network had engaged in a “campaign of libel and slander” against him. In his lawsuit, Trump contends that CNN utilised its great clout as a preeminent news source to undermine him politically. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The “Big Lie” regarding Trump’s fraudulent allegations of widespread fraud, which he alleges cost him the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, is the primary subject of the case.
Trump allegedly accused CNN of equating him with Adolf Hitler, presenting him as a Russian puppet, and being racist, according to The Wall Street Journal. He claimed that the network has recently increased these efforts in anticipation of him perhaps running for president once more in 2024.It should be noted that Trump has regularly threatened to sue media companies over news coverage throughout his business and political careers.His re-election campaign filed lawsuits against The New York Times and The Washington Post in 2020 over opinion pieces that allegedly connected the former US President to Russian meddling in American elections, according to The New York Times.
CNN “has endeavoured to taint the plaintiff with a series of scandalous, false, and defamatory labels of “racist,” “Russian lackey,” “insurrectionist,” and eventually “Hitler,” as part of its systematic effort to push the political balance to the Left,” the complaint claimed.The former president announced in a statement that he would file lawsuits “in the coming weeks and months” against other significant media organisations. He also hinted that he might take legal action against a congressional committee looking into the supporters’ attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.The 76-year-old former president is currently the target of a criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for keeping official documents at his Florida residence Mar-a-Lago after leaving office in January 2021.
