- Trump to sue New York Times for $15bn over defamation and political bias.
- Case will be filed in Florida amid ongoing legal battles with major media outlets.
- Previous defamation suits by Trump, including against CNN and NYT, were dismissed.
President Donald Trump has announced plans to sue The New York Times for $15 billion (approximately ₦18 trillion), accusing the newspaper of defamation and deliberate falsehood.
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EKO HOT BLOG reports that that the US leader made this known on Monday via his Truth Social platform, where he said the Times had been allowed to “lie, smear, and defame” him for too long.
He declared that the situation “stops now.”
“The New York Times has gotten away with these attacks for far too long, and it ends now!” Trump stated in the post.
He went on to accuse the paper of becoming a “mouthpiece for the Radical Left Democrat Party.”
Trump was particularly upset about the newspaper’s front-page endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential race, calling it “unprecedented.”
“They put Kamala Harris’ endorsement front and center on the front page – something that has never been done before,” he said.
The lawsuit is being filed in Florida, where Trump enjoys strong political support.
Trump also accused other media outlets, including major TV networks, of using what he called “highly sophisticated systems” to misrepresent him through altered documents and visuals.
In recent months, some of those media organisations have chosen to settle with Trump. ABC News and CBS News (owned by Paramount) reportedly reached multimillion-dollar settlements in separate lawsuits filed by the president.
Additionally, Trump is currently suing the Wall Street Journal over its reporting on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
This isn’t the first time Trump is taking The New York Times to court. In 2021, he filed a $100 million suit accusing the paper and his niece, Mary Trump, of conspiring to leak his tax records. That case, tied to a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into his finances, was thrown out in 2023.
He also previously attempted to sue CNN for allegedly comparing him to Adolf Hitler a $475 million claim that was also dismissed by a federal judge.
Despite the legal setbacks, Trump has remained vocal about his criticism of what he calls “biased media,” especially those he views as leaning toward the Democratic Party.
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