Donald Trump threatened to file a lawsuit against CNN after they called him a liar multiple times.
The network was criticized by Trump for comparing his propaganda tactics to those of the Nazis.
Trump's lawyers told CNN that it was a particularly offensive slur.
Donald Trump, who once compared a mob that included neo-Nazis to "very fine people," threatened to file a lawsuit against CNN for defamation.
The Trump-Nazi analogies are offensive due to the fact that he has Jewish members of his immediate family.
Three of Trump's children are Jewish and his daughter converted to Judaism to marry a Jew.
CNN and other outlets are in danger of being sued by Trump for calling him a liar and a big lie.
He insists that he can't be lying because he believes there was widespread election fraud in 2020.
The election was fair according to nearly 90 judges.
There are at least 86 judges who have rejected lawsuits trying to overturn the 2020 results.
The head of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency called the election fair.
There was no widespread voter fraud that could have tipped the election in favor of Trump.
There was no fraud that could overturn the results according to multiple officials in his own administration.
The former president insists that he is telling the truth when he says the election was stolen from him.
CNN took it upon itself to engage in a campaign of defamation, branding President Trump a liar, and one who subscribes to the notion of the "Big Lie," according to the warning letter.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it," the letter quotes from a year ago.
"If the articles fail to link Trump to Hitler, they frequently draw comparisons between Trump and China's president for life," the letter continued.
When white nationalists and neo-Nazis gathered in Virginia for the "Unite the Right" rally, Trump did not condemn the mob.
The angry crowd used torches to march in protest of the removal of the Confederate statue. They shouted "blood and soil" and "Jews will not replace us"
In an impromptu press conference after the rally, Trump said, "You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very good people."
The Washington Post fact checked Trump's claim that the crowd was made up of fine people and gave him four false positives.
The former president compared tearing down monuments to the founding fathers.
Among the offending CNN articles cited in Trump's letter this week is one from a year ago, an analysis in which Editor-at-large Chris Cillizza quoted Trump saying, "If you say it enough and keep saying it, they'll start."
Trump was talking about how he and other Republicans were being manipulated.
Everything you need to know about his approach to the presidency is explained by that quote.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it," was the famous line from Nazi Joseph Goebbels, according to Cillizza.
Business Insider has an article on it.
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