“CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas than the Washington Post, and CNN goes into millions of individuals’ homes,' Sandmann's lawyer L. Lin Wood said.
Following a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post, Covington Catholic teenager Nick Sandmann and his family are planning to sue CNN for a similar amount, Sandmann's lawyer said.
“CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas than the Washington Post, and CNN goes into millions of individuals’ homes," Wood said.“I've got some young, smart lawyers that are working hard as we can," Wood said."Double-checking, and listen, when we file complaints, we've investigated it because we want to get it right. Maybe CNN can learn from that.
"If you took the time to look at the full context of what happened that day, Nicholas Sandmann did absolutely nothing wrong. He was, as I've said to others, he was the only adult in the room. But you have a situation where CNN couldn't resist the idea that here's a guy with a young boy, that Make America Great Again cap on. So they go after him," Wood said. “The CNN folks were online on Twitter at 7 a.
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