Washington Post settles Covington defamation lawsuit

By Becket Adams

Published July 24, 2020 4:32pm ET

Washington Post settles Covington defamation lawsuit — In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 image made from video provided by the Survival Media Agency, a teenager wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, center left, stands in front of an elderly Native American singing and playing a drum in Washington. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington in Kentucky is looking into this and other videos that show youths, possibly from the diocese's all-male Covington Catholic High School, mocking Native Americans at a rally in Washington. | (Survival Media Agency via AP)

Nick Sandmann has scored another victory in his campaign against the news outlets that falsely accused him in 2019 of abusing an elderly Native American protester in the nation’s capital.

With a win against CNN already under his belt, Sandmann may actually pull this off.

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