Big scoop: Trump doesn't like being compared to Hitler

Former President Donald Trump is doubling down on his “I am not Hitler” defamation lawsuit against CNN by adopting the Nazi strategy of attacking journalists as liars, with court papers claiming—without irony—that “Americans are split when asked if the media is actually an enemy of democracy.” …

But in the latest court filings, Trump’s lawyers paradoxically argued that now is the “perfect” time to peel back First Amendment protections for American journalists by asking courts to review legal precedent established in a 1964 case called New York Times v. Sullivan.

“The sustained defamation of falsely linking President Trump to Nazis provides a perfect vehicle for Supreme Court reexamination of Sullivan,” lawyers wrote in their Dec. 30 filing.

[This is a profoundly stupid take on a somewhat less stupid lawsuit, especially its headline. First off, who *likes* being compared to Hitler? Second, Trump’s “enemy of democracy” demagoguery has been over the top, but the media isn’t covering itself in glory the last few years either, especially in their all-in support for the Big Disinfo government-media industrial complex. Lastly, the Sullivan decision is not a First Amendment protection as much as it is an innovation that makes media irresponsibility less accountable.

The lawsuit is dumb and destined for failure, but this take is almost as bad. — Ed]