Abstract
Former President Donald Trump filed a $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN arguing the network has maligned him with “fake news” for the purposes of damaging his political future heading into 2024.
The complaint filed Oct. 3 stated, “CNN has sought to use its massive influence – purportedly as a ‘trusted’ news source – to defame the Plaintiff in the minds of its viewers and readers for the purpose of defeating him politically, culminating in CNN claiming credit for ‘[getting] Trump out’ in the 2020 presidential election.”
First Amendment Watch asked First Amendment scholar Timothy Zick to annotate the 29-page lawsuit for the legal claims it made and the precedents it cited.
Document Type
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Publication Information
First Amendment Watch (October 24, 2022)
Repository Citation
Zick, Timothy, "First Amendment Scholar Timothy Zick Dismantles Trump v. CNN Lawsuit" (2022). Popular Media. 592.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/popular_media/592