Zachary Young’s high-stakes defamation lawsuit against the Associated Press continues to inch along in Bay County, Florida, as the U.S. Navy veteran seeks to clear his name.

Young successfully sued CNN for defamation earlier this year after saying the network smeared him by implying he illegally profited from helping people flee Afghanistan on the “black market” during the Biden administration’s disastrous 2021 military withdrawal.

When covering the trial in January, Associated Press media reporter David Bauder wrote that “Young’s business helped smuggle people out of Afghanistan.”

Young’s legal team has said that the Associated Press article “went even further than CNN’s falsehoods,” and the veteran is seeking nearly $500 million in a defamation suit against the AP.

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