Trump-appointed judge dismisses Donald's $475 million "Big Lie" defamation lawsuit against CNN
The disgraced ex-president notched another impressive courtroom defeat, this time before one of his handpicked jurists, US District Judge Raag Singhal, whom he appointed in 2019. Trump laughably claimed that CNN's use of the very apt, very accurate term "big lie" to describe his nefarious efforts to overthrow the 2020 election and upend American democracy amounted to defamation because the phrase apparently likened him to Adolf Hitler.
While the phrase "big lie" historically refers to an insidious propaganda technique with origins tracing back to Germany and Hitler's memoir, Mein Kampf, Trump's attempt to steal the presidency was, in fact, based on a lie, and a very, very big one at that.
The disgraced ex-president notched another impressive courtroom defeat, this time before one of his handpicked jurists, US District Judge Raag Singhal, whom he appointed in 2019. Trump laughably claimed that CNN's use of the very apt, very accurate term "big lie" to describe his nefarious efforts to overthrow the 2020 election and upend American democracy amounted to defamation because the phrase apparently likened him to Adolf Hitler.
While the phrase "big lie" historically refers to an insidious propaganda technique with origins tracing back to Germany and Hitler's memoir, Mein Kampf, Trump's attempt to steal the presidency was, in fact, based on a lie, and a very, very big one at that.
