![]() Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Covelli Centre on Septemin Youngstown, Ohio.įormer President Donald Trump sued CNN for over $475 million in damages in a Florida federal court early Monday evening. In the case of Trump and other anti-democratic leaders around the world, Uscinski and Enders contend that: anti-establishment sentiments are an important ingredient of support for populist leaders, conspiratorial beliefs, and political violence. TRUMPS CULT ANIMOSITY SHOWS LETTING UP FREE We can and will restore our country to greatness when people like the senator allow a system of free and fair elections to determine who will lead us.and not petty, vengeful, entitled former members of the entrenched bureaucracy. The 29-page defamation lawsuit says the network “seeks to create the news” and makes clear that this accusation is what Trump himself has long characterized as “fake news” in his public statements. Those alleged mischaracterizations, Trump claims, echoing the language of defamation law, are not made “merely with reckless disregard for the truth of their statements,” but “with real animosity” for the former president and the intent “to cause him true harm.” The lawsuit claims that defamatory labels of “racist,” “Russian lackey,” “insurrectionist,” and ultimately “Hitler” are routinely and “repeatedly” applied by the network’s “allegedly ‘reputable’ newscasters” to Trump and that such voices do not assert those labels as” hyperbolic nor opinion,” but as facts, “with purported factual support.” “Beyond simply highlighting any negative information about and ignoring all positive information about him, CNN has sought to use its massive influence- purportedly as a ‘trusted’ news source-to defame in the minds of its viewers and readers for the purpose of defeating him politically, culminating in CNN claiming credit for ‘ Trump out’ in the 2020 presidential election,” the filing claims.Īttacks on the 45th president recently began again in earnest, the filing claims, due to fears that he would run for president in 2024. The filing goes on to make a novel argument: that U.S. Trump, he holds, has all the characteristics of a cult leader, and his followers the qualities of a cult, from the all-consuming devotion to a single malignant narcissist to the daily. Julie Wronski, a political scientist at the University of Mississippi - a co-author, with Mason and John Kane of N.Y.U., of a just published paper, Activating Animus: The Uniquely Social Roots of Trump Support - put it this way in reply to my emailed query.
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