CNN Slapped with BILLION Lawsuit OUCH!
The last thing troubled news network CNN needs is a billion buck lawsuit. They’re so desperate to make Zachary Young go away that they resorted to using Sharia law in a motion to dismiss his case. The Florida court wasn’t impressed. The Navy veteran who sued the network can proceed with his defamation action.
Everyone can see that a motion the lawyers for CNN filed was a desperate “last-ditch” effort. In an attempt to weasel out of a defamation case, they claim the military veteran plaintiff “violated Taliban law.” Who cares? He sued them in Florida, not Afghanistan.
Court documents confirm that the judicial panel denied the network’s motion to dismiss Zachary Young’s lawsuit. “The matter will move forward as scheduled, with a tentative January 6, 2025 civil jury trial date on the calendar.”
CNN allegedly smeared the decorated vet, ruining his reputation. The liberal leaning network falsely portrayed him “as a profiteer of war crimes.”
Jake Tapper hosted the episode where the false claims were aired. That means he’s in trouble, too. It happened “during a discussion about America’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
Young was “a private security consultant who served in the U.S. Navy.” His lawsuit alleges that CNN accused him of charging “exorbitant prices to smuggle people out of the country amid the return of Taliban rule.”
A false narrative
The damage to Mr. Young, his reputation and his career all happened at the beginning of the show. “The clear effect of the first few seconds of the Segment is to set up a false narrative of Young serving desperate Afghans on an illegal market—which he never did.” CNN was brutal.
Lawyers for CNN already admit that the story was “full of holes like Swiss cheese” and “not ready for primetime.” The only thing they could use as defense is an argument that their accusation Young engaged in “black market” activity is valid enough that they think a jury would agree.
The clincher to their argument sent the panel of judges into a howling fit of laughter.
Just before the parties were due to sit down for a settlement conference in June, CNN filed the dismiss motion arguing that the activities Young “orchestrated and funded” involved “moving women out of Afghanistan.”
Those actions, the network’s lawyers scold “almost certainly were illegal under Taliban rule.” Here in America, the “government does not recognize the Taliban or its interpretation of Sharia law.” Motion denied.
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