{"id":230739,"date":"2025-09-16T06:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230739\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T06:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:54:08","slug":"trump-files-15-billion-defamation-lawsuit-against-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230739\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump files $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK &#8212; President Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and four of its journalists on Monday, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Florida names several articles and one book written by two of the publication&#8217;s journalists and published in the lead up to the 2024 election, saying they are \u201cpart of a decades-long pattern by the New York Times of intentional and malicious defamation against President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cDefendants published such statements negligently, with knowledge of the falsity of the statements, and\/or with reckless disregard of their truth or falsity,&#8221; the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The New York Times did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment early Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a Truth Social post announcing the lawsuit, Trump accused The New York Times of lying about him and defaming him, saying it has become \u201ca virtual \u2018mouthpiece\u2019 for the Radical Left Democrat Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Trump has gone after other media outlets, including <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-jeffrey-epstein-grand-jury-justice-department-ece8a837f9bd179771f801a765e242e4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filing a $10 billion defamation lawsuit<\/a> against the The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch in July after the newspaper published a story reporting on his ties to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; President Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":230740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[124400,5229,347,64,356,57,336,362,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,61,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-230739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-124400","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-lawsuits","15":"tag-legal-proceedings","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-u-s-news","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115212666294869215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}