US President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is filing a $15bn (ÂŁ11bn) lawsuit against the New York Times, accusing the paper of defamation and libel.
“The New York Times has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops, NOW!” Trump declared in a Truth Social post. He said the lawsuit, to be filed in Florida, targets the Times for becoming a “mouthpiece for the Radical Left Democrat Party.”
Trump specifically blasted the paper’s 2024 endorsement of Kamala Harris, calling it unprecedented: “Their Endorsement of Kamala Harris was actually put dead center on the front page of The New York Times, something heretofore UNHEARD OF!”
He also accused media outlets of “smearing” him through “a highly sophisticated system of document and visual alteration.” The Times has not yet responded to the claims.
This is not Trump’s first clash with the newspaper. In 2023, a judge dismissed his $100m lawsuit accusing the Times and Mary Trump of conspiring to obtain his tax records for a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation. He also lost a $475m defamation suit against CNN the same year after the network likened him to Adolf Hitler.
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