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<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-is-the-quentin-tarantino-of-gop-politics">Donald Trump</a>’s already-shaky defamation lawsuit against <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/pences-nonchalance-about-dangerous-maga-voters-leaves-cnn-anchor-dana-bash-stunned">CNN</a> officially flopped Friday, with the federal judge he appointed dismissing the case despite his pleas the network had associated him with <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/adolf-hitler-cult-caught-running-submachine-guns-for-international-drug-traffickers">Adolf Hitler</a>.</p>
<p>The lawsuit centered around CNN’s coverage of Trump after his failed 2020 bid for re-election, where the network repeatedly used the term “<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizonas-gop-went-all-in-on-trumps-big-lienow-its-broke">the Big Lie</a>” to refer to Trump’s claims the election was stolen. </p>
<p>Trump asserted the phrase likened him to Hitler because it’s been used to describe lies told by the Nazis to justify atrocities in the Holocaust. Trump claimed the phrase defamed him and suggested to viewers he’d be “Hitler-like” in a future political position.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-big-lie-cnn-defamation-lawsuit-is-dismissed">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
Donald Trump’s already-shaky defamation lawsuit against CNN officially flopped Friday, with the federal judge he appointed dismissing the case despite his pleas the network had associated him with Adolf Hitler.
The lawsuit centered around CNN’s coverage of Trump after his failed 2020 bid for re-election, where the network repeatedly used the term “the Big Lie” to refer to Trump’s claims the election was stolen.
Trump asserted the phrase likened him to Hitler because it’s been used to describe lies told by the Nazis to justify atrocities in the Holocaust. Trump claimed the phrase defamed him and suggested to viewers he’d be “Hitler-like” in a future political position.
