"Trump has not adequately alleged the falsity of CNN's statements. Therefore, he has failed to state a defamation claim. Trump's other arguments are likewise meritless. He argues that the district court erred in limiting its analysis to the five defamatory statements that he listed in his complaint. According to Trump, the district court should have also analyzed the more than sixty instances of defamation set forth in the Notice Letter to CNN and the nearly 7,700 instances in which CNN had defamed Plaintiff with the Big Lie' allegation."
"In 2023, that lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice (meaning it cannot be amended and refiled) in an opinion written by Judge Raag Singhal, a Trump appointee, who wrote that rhetoric that aired on the network was opinion, not a false statement of fact, and therefore could not support a claim of defamation."
President Trump sued CNN in 2022 seeking $475 million in punitive damages over the network's repeated use of the term 'Big Lie' to describe his claims about the 2020 election. A federal district court dismissed the lawsuit in 2023, with Judge Raag Singhal ruling that CNN's rhetoric was opinion-based and therefore not actionable defamation. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit unanimously affirmed this dismissal in November. The three-judge appellate panel, which included two Trump appointees, held that Trump failed to adequately allege the falsity of CNN's statements and rejected his arguments that the court should have analyzed thousands of additional instances of the 'Big Lie' reference.
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