CNN is likely to be hit with a massive lawsuit worth more than $250 million over alleged “vicious” and “direct attacks” on Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann, his lawyer Lawyer L. Lin Wood has told Fox News.
“CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas than The Washington Post. And CNN goes into millions of individuals’ homes,” Wood told Fox News host and best-selling author Mark Levin.
“They really went after Nicholas with the idea that he was part of a mob that was attacking the Black Hebrew Israelites, yelling racist slurs at the Black Hebrew Israelites. Totally false.
“Now you say you’ve seen the tape; if you took the time to look at the full context of what happened that day, Nicholas Sandmann did absolutely nothing wrong. He was, as I’ve said to others, he was the only adult in the room. But you have a situation where CNN couldn’t resist the idea that here’s a guy with a young boy, that Make America Great Again cap on. So they go after him.”
Wood continued: “The CNN folks were online on Twitter at 7 a.m retweeting the little one-minute propaganda piece that had been put out. … They’re out there right away going after this young boy. And they maintain it for at least two days. Why didn’t they stop and just take an hour and look through the Internet and find the truth and then report it? Maybe do that before you report the lies.”
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A picture is worth 1,000 words and 250 million dollars
Go get em Nick!
Expose CNN for who they really are.
Suck them dry!
Good luck to him but I doubt he will be able to recover anything, let alone such an amount. He can only sue for statements of objective fact that were false, not for opinions or conclusions. For instance “Nick Sandmann is a horrible racist who deserves to be punched in the nose” is an opinion, which cannot be true or false, so it’s not actionable. Most of the reporting on him took that form, short of alleged facts and long on hateful opinions.
Next, even if he can identify specific false statements to sue for, he’d have to show that the damage he suffered came from those statements, not from all the truly hateful and vicious opinions. That will be tough to do.
At least he doesn’t face one barrier that usually kills such suits. He’s a private figure, so he doesn’t have to prove the defendants knew the truth and deliberately lied about him. If he was damaged by specific falsehoods it was the defendants’ job to verify them before publishing, which is not the case for public figures.
I hope he wins.
What is the “real” story ; and what is Con’s propaganda for what he is suing?
CNN’s. NOT CON’s