Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed

A judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CNN (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN.

The former US president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.