The Washington Post is the latest news organization to settle a defamation lawsuit launched by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann for his failed coverage of a viral confrontation with an elderly Native American man who had portrayed the Kentucky teenager as the assailant.
Sandmann announced the victory on Twitter.
“On 02/19/19, I filed a $ 250 million libel lawsuit against the Washington Post. Today I turned 18 and WaPo settled my lawsuit. Thank you @ToddMcMurtry and @LLinWood for your defense. Thank you to my family and millions of you They have stood firm in supporting me. I still have more to do, “Sandmann wrote Friday.
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This follows CNN’s multi-million dollar deal with the teenager in January.
Sandmann offered a not-so-subtle warning to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
“We have settled for WAPO and CNN. The fight is not over. 2 down. 6 to go. Don’t hold your breath @jack,” Sandmann tweeted.
Sandmann’s attorney Lin Wood wrote similarly: “For our gift to @ N1ckSandmann to celebrate his 18th birthday, @ToddMcMurtry and I gave Nicholas the gift of justice from … THE WASHINGTON POST #FightBack” .
A spokesman for The Washington Post told Fox News: “We are pleased that we were able to reach a mutually acceptable resolution of the remaining claims in this lawsuit.”
In March 2019, Sandmann’s attorneys filed a lawsuit against CNN for their coverage of the incident before all the facts emerged. The teenager was seeking a whopping $ 800 million in damages from CNN, NBC and the Post.
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Attorney Todd McMurtry previously told Fox News that lawsuits would be filed against “up to 13 defendants.”
Among them: ABC, CBS, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, NPR, Slate, The Hill, and Gannett, which owns the Cincinnati Inquirer, as well as various other small teams, according to McMurtry. Separate lawsuits against the Washington Post and NBC have already been filed, he added.
Sandmann became embroiled in controversy after a video clip showed the student in the “MAGA” hat smiling at Nathan Phillips playing a drum and singing a song while surrounded by Sandmann’s classmates, who had joined the singing in front of him. . The steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC
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However, several mainstream media outlets, including CNN and The Washington Post, portrayed the incident with Sandmann and the other teens as racially accused before additional footage showed that a group of black Hebrew Israelis had sparked the confrontation, throwing insults. racial to students. as they waited for their bus after the March For Life event.
The footage then showed Phillips, who was in town for the Indigenous Peoples March, approaching the students amid mounting tension between the two groups.
