After two years of litigation, days worth of time spent in a litany of hearings and deposition testimonies, and boat loads of money spent on lawyers, the trial in the $1 billion defamation suit against CNN is set to begin this Monday, January 6. A lot has happened over the last several months as arguments shifted, witnesses axed, and rulings were made by Judge Williams Scott Henry. So now’s the perfect time to look back at those developments and examine how things stand ahead of the opening arguments.
The alleged defamation stemmed from a November 11, 2021 episode of The Lead with Jake Tapper where Tapper led into the segment by painting an image of a “black market” hustler who charged “exorbitant fees” taking advantage of desperate people trying to leave Afghanistan following President Biden disastrous withdrawal:
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