A federal appeals court rejected Donald Trump ‘s effort to revive a defamation lawsuit against CNN , concluding that he has not “adequately alleged” the falsity of the network’s references to his stolen 2020 election claims as “the Big Lie.”

The three-judge appellate panel upheld a lower court’s 2023 dismissal of the case.

Trump had argued in his lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida in 2022, that the references to the phrase were defamatory as they created a “false and incendiary association” between him and Adolf Hitler.

“Trump’s argument is unpersuasive,” the appellate judges wrote. “First, although he concedes that CNN’s use of the term ‘Big Lie’ is, to some extent, ambiguous, he assumes that it is unambiguous enough to constitute a statement of fact. This assumptio

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