Trump files $15 billion defamation suit against The New York Times
World Desk
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and four of its journalists, according to court documents.
The suit, lodged in the U.S. District Court in Florida, targets several articles and a book written by two journalists of the publication in the lead-up to the 2024 election. It alleges that the pieces are “part of a decades-long pattern by The New York Times of intentional and malicious defamation against President Trump.”
The lawsuit claims that the defendants published the statements “negligently, with knowledge of the falsity of the statements, and/or with reckless disregard of their truth or falsity.”
Trump, in a Truth Social post announcing the suit, accused The New York Times of lying about him and called the newspaper “a virtual ‘mouthpiece’ for the Radical Left Democrat Party.”
The New York Times did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This is not Trump’s first legal action against media outlets. In July, he filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over a story linking him to financier Jeffrey Epstein.
