Judge Dismisses Donald Trump Campaign's Libel Suit Against CNN
By Ted Johnson
November 12, 2020 10:46am
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a libel suit that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign filed against CNN earlier this year, concluding that the president’s team had failed to sufficiently allege that the network maliciously published a June 13, 2019 op-ed.
At issue was a piece by Larry Noble, a website contributor, who wrote in a column that “the Trump campaign assessed the potential risks and benefits of again seeking Russia’s help in 2020 and has decided to leave that option on the table.” The piece was written in the aftermath of the release of details of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
The Trump campaign filed suit against CNN in March, among a series of legal actions it took against media outlets. Trump’s lawyers have a high threshold for providing their case, as they have to show that the network knew the statement was false but published it anyway or acted with gross negligence.
In his opinion (read it here), U.S. District Judge Michael L. Brown wrote that “most of the allegations in the complaint regarding actual malice are conclusory. Plaintiff, for example, alleges in a purely conclusory manner that Defendants ‘clearly had a malicious motive’ and ‘knowingly disregarded all . . . information when it published the Defamatory Article.'”
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https://deadline.com/2020/11/donald-trump-cnn-libel-suit-dismissed-1234613678/
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it is beyond hilarious and pathetic at the same time.
