Donald Trump announced on Monday that he had submitted a $ 15 billion defamation against the New York Times, which increased his long -term hostility with the newspaper.
In a publication Social truthTrump wrote:
“Today, I have a great honor to bring the $ 15 billion lawsuit to the dollar against the New York Times, one of the worst newspapers and the most deteriorating in the history of our country, and has become a” hypothetical “tongue for the Radical Democratic Party.
Trump accused the newspaper of engaging in a “long way of lying” around him, his family, and “the first American movement”. He added that the lawsuit was filed in Florida and was compared to other legal battles, claiming that he had obtained favorable settlements in previous cases against ABC, CBS and other outlets.
This announcement followed nearly a week of tension between Trump and the paper about a sexually suggestive observation and the drawing of Jeffrey Epstein on his fiftieth birthday in 2003. The observation was issued by the House of Representatives Supervision Committee as part of a set of documents related to the two Ibstin.
The Times I mentioned that the signature of the note – the name “Donald”, with a long prosperity – is closely similar to handwriting samples from Trump dates back to the late eighties. Trump and his assistants denied that he had any role in creating the observation, describing it as manufacturing.
According to the Times, Edward Balzik, Trump’s lawyer, sent a message to the paper that demands retreat and apologies, citing the Modern article and July story About Trump’s habit in making thick black mark graphics. Paltzik warned that litigation can follow.
“Our journalists reported the facts, gave visual evidence and printing the president’s denial. All that exists is that the American people see the first thing that they offer to put their minds on this,” Daniel Rhodes Ha, a spokeswoman for the New York Times, reported in a statement published on Wednesday.
This is not the first time that the president has been engaged with the New York Times. According to Associated PressIn 2024, Trump ordered the payment of nearly $ 400,000 as legal fees for the paper and three investigative correspondents after prosecuting the investigation of the Politzer Award 2018 in his family affairs.
Judge Robert Reed and her journalists rejected this lawsuit, and stipulated that the news be embodied “at the heart of the first protected amendment activity.”
The 2018 Times newspaper stabbed Trump’s demands for wealth that was sticking by documenting how his father, Farid Trump, transferred at least $ 413 million over the decades, including through tax avoiding plans. According to the Times, reports were based on more than 100,000 pages of financial records.
The Epstein Memorandum also remains in another center suit In July, Trump advanced against the Wall Street Journal and its owner, Robert Murdoch, after the newspaper was the first to report its existence.
Trump has actually concluded his social position on Monday by pledging to “keep this” rag “once and announce,” This stops, now! Make America great again! “