mo4ch:>Lawfare 101: Trump campaign sues CNN, NYT and WaPo for ‘false and defamatory’ coverage | Mo4ch News

By Nebojsa Malic, senior writer at RT The Trump 2020 re-election campaign has now sued three major mainstream media outlets for defamation, in a move that seems less about legal redress than about holding self-appointed guardians of democracy actually accountable.On Friday, the campaign filed a lawsuit against CNN for “100 percent false and defamatory” statements in a report that alleged the US president had decided to leave “on the table” the option of “again seeking Russia’s help” in the 2020 election.Jenna Ellis, the campaign’s senior legal adviser, said the lawsuit – along with the complaints against The New York Times and The Washington Post, filed earlier this week – seeks “to hold the publishers accountable for their reckless false reporting and also to establish the truth.”Also on rt.comDemocrat outrage forces Facebook to remove Team Trump's ‘misleading’ Census adsThe lawsuits are not entirely unexpected, as the campaign threatened to file them back in October 2019, and now…