{"id":231022,"date":"2025-09-16T09:31:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/231022\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:31:30","slug":"trump-sues-new-york-times-for-15-billion-in-defamation-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/231022\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Sues New York Times for $15 Billion in Defamation Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDonald Trump<\/a> has filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times<\/a> for defamation and libel, alleging the publication caused him reputational damage.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Reuters<\/a>, the president sued the New York Times, four of its reporters and publisher Penguin Random House in documents filed on Monday in a U.S. district court in Florida. Reuters reports that Trump cites a series of New York Times articles in the suit, including an editorial from before the 2024 election that said he was unfit for the presidency, as well as a book Penguin published last year with the title \u201cLucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father\u2019s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDefendants maliciously published the Book and the Articles knowing that these publications were filled with repugnant distortions and fabrications about President Trump,\u201d the filing states, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe New York Times and Penguin did not immediately respond to Variety\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe president took to Truth Social<\/a> Monday night to announce the move.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cToday, I have the Great Honor of bringing a $15 Billion Dollar Defamation and Libel Lawsuit against The New York Times, one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country, becoming a virtual \u2018mouthpiece\u2019 for the Radical Left Democrat Party,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI view it as the single largest illegal Campaign contribution, EVER. Their Endorsement of Kamala Harris was actually put dead center on the front page of The New York Times, something heretofore UNHEARD OF!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump went on to accuse the Times of lying for \u201cdecades\u201d about himself, his \u201cfamily, business, the America First Movement, MAGA and our Nation as a whole.\u201d He also boasted about his \u201csuccessful\u201d lawsuits against \u201c60 Minutes\u201d and ABC, which he claimed \u201cknew they were falsely \u2018smearing\u2019 me through a highly sophisticated system of document and visual alteration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe concluded, \u201cThe New York Times has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops, NOW! The suit is being brought in the Great State of Florida. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs noted by the president, this is not the first time he\u2019s gone after a major news organization in court. In July, Paramount paid a $16 million settlement<\/a> to the Trump administration for a lawsuit against \u201c60 Minutes\u201d as its $8 billion merger was awaiting final approval from the FCC. The media giant had previously slammed the litigation as \u201cmeritless.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDisney was also forced to kowtow to Trump to the tune of $15 million back in December<\/a>. The settlement was over a lawsuit against ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos after he falsely asserted on air that Trump had been found liable in a court case for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn July, Trump filed a $20 billion suit<\/a> against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters for a story that claimed the president wrote a birthday letter to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that contained suggestive language and imagery. He slammed the article as \u201cfalse, malicious\u201d and \u201cdefamatory.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis also isn\u2019t the first time the Times has been in legal hot water with the president. Trump threatened to sue <\/a>the news organization over their reports on the U.S. bombing raids on Iran, which came in contrast to the Trump administration\u2019s early assessment that Iran\u2019s nuclear capabilities were \u201ctotally obliterated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times for defamation and libel, alleging…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":231023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,69,405,403,6985,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-231022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-times","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115213283353150809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231022","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=231022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}