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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (LifeSiteNews) – President Donald Trump filed a $475 million federal defamation lawsuit against CNN and said that more lawsuits against the media could be coming.

The lawsuit accused CNN of “undertak[ing] a smear campaign to malign the Plaintiff with a barrage of
negative associations and innuendos, broadcasting commentary that he is like a cult leader, a Russian lackey, a dog whistler to white supremacists, and a racist.”

CNN’s coverage, according to Trump’s lawsuit, “is the stuff of tabloids cloaked as ‘honored’ news.”

The lawsuit accuses CNN of trying to tarnish Trump’s image in anticipation of a 2024 presidential run. It criticized the cable station for repeatedly comparing the former president to Adolf Hitler.

“CNN’s campaign of dissuasion in the form of libel and slander against the Plaintiff has only escalated in recent months as CNN fears the Plaintiff will run for president in 2024,” the lawsuit alleged.

“The Plaintiff brings this action to vindicate his reputation as a dedicated public servant and to establish CNN’s liability for the harm it has caused to his reputation by the false, defamatory, and inflammatory mischaracterizations of him,” the lawsuit stated. “The Plaintiff seeks an award of compensatory damages for the reputational harm caused by CNN and, given the willful and malicious nature of CNN’s conduct that is intended to interfere with the Plaintiff’s political career” in addition to the $475 million in punitive damages.

“In the coming weeks and months we will also be filing lawsuits against a large number of other Fake News Media Companies for their lies, defamation, and wrongdoing,” the former president wrote in a statement.

Trump also said legal actions could be taken against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s handpicked committee on the violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

“Likewise, we may bring appropriate action against the Unselect Committee of January 6th because, notwithstanding overwhelming evidence, they REFUSED to investigate the massive Presidential Election Fraud which took place, but only investigate and harass the people and Patriots who complained and asked questions about it,” Trump said. “The rigging and stealing of our Presidential Election was perhaps The Crime Of The Century, and look at what is happening to our Country now!”

“The Unselect Committee has refused to acknowledge, as was done by the Biden Inspector General at the Department of Defense, and others, that days ahead of January 6th, I recommended and authorized thousands of troops to be deployed to ensure that there was peace, safety, and security at the Capitol and throughout the Country,” the statement continued. “That offer of National Guard was rejected by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Mayor Bowser of Washington, D.C.—the law requires their request, they failed to make one, and in turn failed the Country.”

CNN previously settled a $250 million defamation lawsuit brought by pro-life Catholic Nick Sandmann, whom it falsely accused of harassing a Native American at the March for Life in 2019. In reality, Nathan Phillips, a left-wing activist, approached Sandmann and his classmates.

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