CNN defamation trial over Afghanistan report kicks off in Florida

Navy veteran Zachary Young said Tuesday that CNN defamed him when the major news network painted him as an “illegal profiteer” and implicated him in “black market” evacuations in its story on the United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan.

“The world braced for the Taliban’s return, but CNN sitting at their desks in D.C., wanted to tell America a more sensational story,” Kyle Roche, one of Young’s attorneys, told six Florida jurors and two alternates in his opening arguments, calling the story a “hit piece.”

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