Given the recent sharp increase in the volume and venom of President Donald Trump’s shots at the media, is the timing right for journalists to consider suing him for issuing defamatory statements?

The idea of CNN, frequently targeted as “liberal media” and a prime purveyor of “fake news” in Trump’s tweets and speeches, retaining attorneys to bring a libel case sounds like the set-up for a knee-slapper at a Republican Party fundraiser. But it’s not as wild an idea as it sounds.

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