Alan Dershowitz To Newsmax: CNN 'Is Quaking In Their Boots' (Suing CNN For $300 Million)

Newsmax ^ | 5-27-2021 | Eric Mack

[blam]

A staunch defender of constitutional speech and press freedoms, legal expert Alan Dershowitz is seeking to hold CNN accountable for its deliberate distortion of facts in an effort to defame him.

"I am really looking forward to an opportunity to depose CNN," Dershowitz told Wednesday's "Spicer & Co." on Newsmax. "This will be the first time this has ever happened.

"And I think CNN is probably quaking in their boots."

A judge dismissed CNN's motion to toss Dershowitz's $300 million lawsuit, ruling the coverage of Dershowitz's first impeachment trial speech was "not based upon a fair and accurate summary of Dershowitz's statement to the Senate."

"We're thrilled we have got an opportunity to go forward to discovery," Dershowitz, author of "Case Against the New Censorship: Protecting Free Speech from Big Tech, Progressives, and Universities," told co-hosts Sean Spicer and Lyndsay Keith.

The basis for Dershowitz's lawsuit is CNN having first played a full version of his Senate impeachment statement, in which he claimed that if presidents make decision in the “public interest” — they should not be impeachable even if the decision is also politically beneficial to them.

In his defense speech for Trump, Dershowitz made clear the president could not engage in “unlawful and illegal" conduct.

But CNN cleverly edited out Dershowitz’s important qualifier, and continuously ran an edited video clip implying Dershowitz said the president could do anything and not be impeached.

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"This wasn't something that happened spontaneously," he said. "This came from the top down and we're going to prove it, and they're going to regret having distorted the truth in this way."

[Gene Eric]

ATT’s bitch doesn’t have $300 million. So the malicious telecom korporation will foot the bill.

[FLT-bird]

Deposition should be very interesting. How much does anybody wanna bet there are some very embarrassing emails from Zucker to his underlings?

[GOP Poet]

Go Alan!!!

[Jaysin]

but like many of my fellow liberal tribesman — he will continue to vote for the D

[No_Mas_Obama]

Possibly why they’re spinning it off to merge with Discovery Channel. Easier to file for bankruptcy.

[griswold3]

At least AD is still a civil libertarian, a dying breed.

[Moltke]

But CNN cleverly stupidly edited out Dershowitz’s important qualifier

Don't give the scum too much credit.

[romanesq]

Dershowitz is doing a nice headfake here.

He doesn’t need it to prove their malice, $300 million worth.

CNN will buckle at giving up discovery proving how deep their malice runs.

CNN the Leader in Fake News will be settling for a lot more than the Sandmann case.

They can’t afford not to and it’s just a matter of when.

[tennmountainman]

Bleed CNN dry Alan.

[SeeSharp]

ATT’s bitch doesn’t have $300 million. So the malicious telecom korporation will foot the bill.

It won't be 300 million. That number is a public relation stunt by Dershowitz. SCOTUS only allows recovery of actual damages in defamation cases. How's he going to prove 300 million in damages?

[Jaysin]

if AD were “raised” in todays era and climate, he’s probably be a R because we are the only ones who can be intellectually honest with ourselves, which he is.

a truly dying breed indeed (heck, most of our own R politicians arent intellectually honest with themselves)

[bert]

Or,...... Dershowitz bill settle the judgement by owning CNN