Alan Dershowitz Files $300 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against CNN

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On Tuesday, celebrity lawyer and media commentator Alan Dershowitz sued CNN for allegedly misrepresenting comments he made defending Republican President Donald Trump during Trump's 2020 impeachment hearing.

The comments in question occurred in late January 2020 when Dershowitz responded to a question from Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz on whether Trump's dealings with Ukraine represented a quid pro quo arrangement. Trump had pressured Ukrainian officials to investigate Hunter Biden, the son of now-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Dershowitz answered that Trump's actions didn't constitute an impeachable offense because Trump believed it would help him get elected "in the public interest." However, Dershowitz claimed, had Trump acted in his own financial or political interest, those two motives would've been illegal.

"The only thing that would make a quid pro quo unlawful is if the quo were in some way illegal," Dershowitz said at the time. "Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest, and mostly you're right–your election is in the public interest. If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment."

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Go on with your bad self, Captain Underpants!