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Trump Campaign Takes Third News Organization to Court

Associated Press

   NEW YORK - The Trump campaign filed a libel lawsuit against CNN on
   Friday for a column about the president and election help from Russia,
   the third such action against a news organization taken in the past two
   weeks.

   The campaign said a piece by Larry Noble posted last June on the CNN
   website falsely says that the campaign considered seeking Russia's help
   in the 2020 campaign and ``decided to leave that option on the table.''
   It made the complaint in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in
   Atlanta, where CNN is based.

   The lawsuit said the article doesn't back up Noble's statement with
   evidence, and that CNN and Noble had both shown a pattern of bias
   against Trump.

   The network had no comment on the lawsuit, a spokeswoman said.

   Earlier this week, the campaign sued The Washington Post for similar
   opinion pieces that discussed the Trump campaign welcoming Russian help
   in 2016. A week earlier, The New York Times was the target, for a Max
   Frankel op-ed suggesting Trump and Russia had an understanding to
   exchange campaign help for more favorable policies toward the country.

   ``The Trump campaign is trying to send a message, both to the press and
   the public, that you criticize the president at your peril,'' said
   Brian Hauss, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union's
   Speech, Privacy and Technology Project.

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