Former President Donald Trump announced plans to file several lawsuits against news outlets for defamation. Trump has a long history of litigation. (Next TV, October 10., 2022, by John Eggerton)
Law professor RonNell Andersen Jones in NBC News, October 8, 2022, writes that politicians are opting for defamation suits against the news media to attract attention and promote their agendas.
Matt Ford in The New Republic, October 6, 2022, reports that in suing CNN, Trump cited instances in which reporters and commentators compared him with Hitler. That sort of hyperbolic opinion has been protected under the First Amendment. In reference to the actual malice standard, Trump contends that when CNN makes the Nazi comparison, they are not fostering debate but rather entering into the political arena, but he courts have not treated different forms of speech in different ways. With little previous litigation to cite in his support, Trump has chosen to file the case in Florida where he has appointed four of five judges.