Trump sues CNN for defamation and seeks $475 million in damages

Former US President Donald Trump blasted CNN for defamation on Monday, demanding $475 million in punitive damages and claiming the community carried out a “slander marketing campaign” in opposition to him.

Trump claimed in his lawsuit, filed in USDistrict District Court docket in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that the community used its affect as a number one information group to defeat him politically.

CNN declined to touch upon the case.

Trump claims within the lawsuit that CNN used such defamatory descriptions in opposition to him as “racist,” “Russian affiliate,” “insurgent,” and “Hitler.”

The lawsuit comes as the previous president faces a prison investigation by the Division of Justice for protecting authorities data on the Mar-a-Lago property in Florida after leaving workplace in January 2021.

(Reuters)