Lawyer Alan Dershowitz has hit CNN with a $300 million defamation lawsuit, accusing the cable network of distorting his words to portray him as an “intellectual who had lost his mind” during President Trump’s impeachment trial, according to media reports.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) had asked Trump’s attorneys whether quid pro quos were simply part of conducting foreign policy. Dershowitz, 82, responded that if Trump had self-serving motives, it would still be legal — a position that Democrats seized on.
But Dershowitz alleges in the lawsuit that CNN only aired a short segment of his answer to “fool its viewers” into believing he had argued that presidents could act illegally if they believed their re-election was in the public interest, the Mail reported.
In fact, Dershowitz had “unequivocally and unambiguously stated” that a president could not act illegally, the filing argues. CNN didn’t immediately return a request for comment. Dershowitz is embroiled in another high-profile defamation lawsuit. Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre sued the lawyer after he called her a liar ...