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.
" 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.
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.
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.
"CNN presented an abridgment of Dershowitz' answer to Senator Cruz' question," U.S. District Court Judge Raag Singhal wrote in his opinion.
As a result, the commentators' statements - that Dershowitz believes a president can do anything, even commit crimes if it would help his re-election - are not based upon a fair and accurate summary of Dershowitz' statement to the Senate.
" Dershowitz is a contributor to Newsmax, and he praised this network on balance compared to CNN. "It's very important to have Newsmax next to CNN to show what a real news network can do, as distinguished from a network that is prepared to distort the facts to satisfy their own agenda," Dershowitz said.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/alan-dershowitz-cnn-lawsuit-distortion/2021/05/26/id/1022893/
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