Judge throws out Donald Trump’s $475m ‘big lie’ defamation lawsuit against CNN

Judge Raag Singhal ruled that CNN's words were opinion and could not be the subject of a defamation claim

A federal judge has thrown out Donald Trump's $475m defamation lawsuit against CNN, in which the former president claimed the network's description of his claims of election fraud as the big lie" associated him with Adolf Hitler.

In a ruling late on Friday night, US judge Raag Singhal, who was nominated by Trump in 2019, said CNN's words were opinion, not fact, and therefore could not be the subject of a defamation claim.