Washington (AFP) — A US federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN for describing his claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen as the “Big Lie.”

District Court Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump during his first term in the White House, tossed out his $475 million suit against the Cable News Network in July 2023.

Trump, in the suit filed in a district court in Florida, alleged that the use of the phrase the “Big Lie” by CNN associated him with tactics used by Adolf Hitler.

The network’s use of “Big Lie,” he said, was a “deliberate effort by CNN to propagate to its audience an association between the plaintiff and one of the most repugnant figures in modern history.”

Singhal, in her ruling, said “the complain

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