Having secured huge payouts from Disney/ABC and Paramount/CBS in latest months, Donald Trump is now as soon as once more taking the New York Times to court docket — for at the least $15 billion {dollars}.
Hyperbolically citing his 2024 election win over Kamala Harris as “the greatest personal and political achievement in American history,” the previous Apprentice host exclaims that the Gray Lady is “a full-throated mouthpiece of the Democrat Party.” Offering nothing by way of proof or argument for that matter, the filings alleges one “election-interfering salvo” after one other as “part of a decades-long pattern by the New York Times of intentional and malicious defamation against President Trump.”
Also aiming the cloying defamation and libel go well with at Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner, Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt, and Penguin Random House over the NYT’s endorsement of Harris, numerous article and the guide Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created The Illusion Of Success, Trump desires a jury trial, the submitting late Monday in federal court docket in MAGA pleasant Florida declares.
“The newspaper’s editorial routine is now one of industrial-scale defamation and libel against political opponents,” the photograph heavy 85-page doc from a trio of Sunshine State and Lone Star state legislation corporations provides. “As such, the Times has become a leading, and unapologetic, purveyor of falsehoods against President Trump on the legacy media landscape.”
Donald Trump solutions questions the media within the Oval Office on September 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Just earlier than heading over the Atlantic for pomp and ceremony state go to to the UK this week, Trump lashed out from his Truth Social perch about how “the New York Times has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops, NOW!”
Of course, huffing and puffing apart and with all of the ring kissing happening of late, the more and more eratic Trump hasn’t been as profitable previously in his authorized actions towards the NYT as he has at squeezing cash out of Hollywood (over $15 million every from Disney and Paramount over what have been extensively thought-about weak fits).
In 2023, New York Supreme Court decide, Robert R. Reed tossed out Trump’s 2021 go well with towards the Times, and its reporters, Susanne Craig (her once more?) David Barstow and Russell Buettner (him, once more?), in addition to his niece Mary Trump, over a 2018 article on his tax schemes. From approach again within the Nineteen Eighties Reagan Era, Trump has promised to sue information shops over protection he didn’t like. Most of the time, the lawsuits by no means occurred and once they did, up till Trump gained the White House once more in 2024, they common have been dismissed or withered away.
Different ballgame now as Trump overtly goes after his perceived enemies and critics with few restraints.
Right now, Trump is pursuing (although with much less vigor of late) a $10 billion defamation go well with towards Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal over their reporting on his connections to 1 time shut pal and now useless convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein. It was Epstein within the fore final week, when the NYT reported {that a} lawyer for Trump wished the broadsheet to retract and make an apology for its story on the supposed letter and sexual drawing given to the as soon as excessive flying financier by the now POTUS again in 2003 for his fiftieth birthday.
Insisting Trump didn’t make the semi-explicit drawing or letter, nor signal it, legal professional Edward Paltzik threatened a $10 billion lawsuit — now Trump has upped the ante.
The New York Times didn’t reply tonight to Deadline’s request for touch upon Trump’s newest lawsuit.