Donald Trump arrives for a CNN city corridor on the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C., on Feb. 18, 2016.

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Donald Trump arrives for a CNN city corridor on the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C., on Feb. 18, 2016.

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A federal decide has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed in opposition to CNN wherein the previous U.S. president claimed that references in information articles or by the community’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to evaluating him to Adolf Hitler.

Trump had been in search of punitive damages of $475 million within the federal lawsuit filed final October in South Florida, claiming the references damage his popularity and political profession. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what’s his third run for the presidency.

U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, stated Friday in his ruling that the previous president’s defamation claims failed as a result of the references have been opinions and never factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to consider that, in viewers’ minds, that phrase would join Trump’s efforts difficult the 2020 election outcomes to Nazi propaganda or Hitler’s genocidal and authoritarian regime, the decide stated.

“CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people,” the decide wrote in his determination.

Email messages in search of remark have been despatched to Trump’s attorneys in South Florida and Washington. Email messages in search of remark additionally have been despatched to CNN attorneys in Atlanta and South Florida.