Rescuing the people Slow Joe left in Afghanistan made the administration look bad, so CNN felt it was their duty to defame him and destroy his reputation. This time, it may cost them big:
But wait - CNN throws the hail Marry
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The case may not be as well known (yet), but CNN could be facing a defamation liability rivaling or exceeding the $787 million Fox News paid out to Dominion Voting Systems. NewsBusters recently reported on Florida's First District Court of Appeals affirming that plaintiff Zachary Young could seek punitive damages, in addition to economic and emotional damages, from the Cable News Network in a civil trial after they allegedly defamed him regarding his work in getting people out of Afghanistan. The total could near or exceed $1 billion.
For that outcome to be remotely in the cards, Young needed to prove malice and according to the ruling, he's done exactly that. "Young sufficiently proffered evidence of actual malice, express malice, and a level of conduct outrageous enough to open the door for him to seek punitive damages," Judge L. Clayton Roberts wrote in the court's ruling.
The court felt the high bars for actual and expressed malice were met because of internal CNN messages that were extremely vicious toward Young. Correspondent Alex Marquardt, the "primary reporter" expressed in a message to a colleague that he wanted to "nail this Zachary Young m****er" and thought the story would be Young's "funeral." On that declaration of wanting to "nail" Young, CNN editor Matthew Philips responded: "gonna hold you to that cowboy!"
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/08/05/cnn-attacks-man-for-saving-women-he-broke-sharia-law-under-taliban-n3792704Quote:
In an interview with NewsBusters, Vel Freedman, the lawyer representing Young, said that "everyone makes mistakes" but what CNN's messages showed was a "systemic problem" inside the network. He added that their internal mechanism for accountability had "clearly failed" and opened themselves to "massive, massive liability."
Freedman told NewsBusters that his client had lost between $40-60 million in economic opportunity over the course of his now-damaged career as a security contractor since people in the field no longer wanted to work with him. If a jury awarded his client for emotional damages, the upper end could be as high as $600 million. The court recognizing the malice and outrageous conduct by CNN, effectively removed the cap on punitive damages in the State of Florida.
All of that meant CNN could be facing upwards of $1 billion in total damages.
But wait - CNN throws the hail Marry
What's the most ridiculous, desperate thing CNN could do to try to get out the $ 1 billion defamation suit against them?
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) August 5, 2024
This is it:
CNN cites Sharia law for their innocence in defamation suit, argue Navy vet is a criminal for saving women https://t.co/b2OT9LAu9G