A police officer stands guard outdoors The New York Times constructing in New York, on June 28, 2018.
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NEW YORK — President Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit in opposition to The New York Times and 4 of its journalists on Monday, in accordance with court docket paperwork.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Florida names a number of articles and one e book written by two of the publication’s journalists and printed within the lead as much as the 2024 election, saying they’re “a part of a decades-long sample by the New York Times of intentional and malicious defamation in opposition to President Trump.”
“Defendants printed such statements negligently, with data of the falsity of the statements, and/or with reckless disregard of their reality or falsity,” the lawsuit says.
The New York Times didn’t instantly reply to an electronic mail requesting remark early Tuesday.
In a Truth Social submit saying the lawsuit, Trump accused The New York Times of mendacity about him and defaming him, saying it has turn into “a digital ‘mouthpiece’ for the Radical Left Democrat Party.”
Trump has gone after different media shops, together with submitting a $10 billion defamation lawsuit in opposition to the The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch in July after the newspaper printed a narrative reporting on his ties to rich financier Jeffrey Epstein.
