The Kentucky teenager at the center of a viral clash with a Native American activist at the Lincoln memorial is preparing to sue CNN for more than $250million for its coverage of the incident in January.
Nick Sandmann's lawyer L Lin Wood discussed the impending lawsuit in a Fox News interview airing on Sunday night.
He warned that it will seek even more in damages than a $250million suit filed against The Washington Post last month.
Sandmann became the target of widespread outrage after a video of him standing face to face with Nathan Philips while wearing a Make America Great Again Hat went viral.
Sandmann and fellow students from Covington Catholic High School were initially accused of initiating the confrontation, until additional videos emerged and showed that they were verbally accosted by a group of street preachers.
Sandmann, who was attending the anti-abortion March for Life, and Phillips, who was attending the Indigenous Peoples' March on the same day, have both said they were trying to defuse the situation.
Wood called the initial video a 'one-minute propaganda piece' and accused the media of jumping the gun by reporting it without context when it first came out.
'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.
'They really went after Nicholas with the idea that he was part of a mob that was attacking the Black Hebrew Israelites, yelling racist slurs at the Black Hebrew Israelites. Totally false.
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Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic student at the center of a viral clash with a Native American activist at the Lincoln memorial is preparing to sue CNN for more than $250million for its coverage of the incident in January
Sandmann's lawyer L Lin Wood discussed the impending lawsuit on Fox News, warning that it will seek even more in damages than a $250million suit filed against The Washington Post
Wood continued: 'Now you say you've seen the tape; 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 lawsuit will be filed early next week, and will likely exceed $250million.
'I expect because of the way [CNN] went after Nicholas so viciously, that the claim for his reputational damage will be higher than it was against The Washington Post,' he said.
The suit against the Post seeks $200million in punitive damages and $50million for reputational damage.
Both Nick Sandmann (left) and Nathan Phillips (right) have said they were attempting to defuse the situation when the confrontation was filmed
The Post issued an 'editor's note' on its controversial coverage in response to the lawsuit last week, in which it admitted that its initial coverage of the encounter was flawed.
'Subsequent reporting, a student's statement and additional video allow for a more complete assessment of what occurred, either contradicting or failing to confirm accounts provided in that story,' the note said.
Sandmann accused the newspaper, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, of falsely labeling him a racist when it engaged in
