The “New York Times” sees the lawsuit an “attempt to suppress independent reporting”. Trump describes the newspaper as the “mouthpiece of the left -wing radical democratic party”. The lawsuit submitted in Florida is directed against the newspaper itself, four of its journalists and against the Penguin Random House publisher.
It refers to three articles that had been published between September and October of last year, as well as a book by reporters Russ BUettner and Susanne Craig. “The book and the articles are part of a decades of the ‘New York Times’, President Trump to be deliberately and maliciously defamed,” said the application.
The court is asked to award the President’s damages of at least $ 15 billion and “in an amount to be determined at the negotiation”. The newspaper had become one of the “leading and brazen and brazen broadcasters of falsehoods about President Trump in the traditional media landscape,” the lawsuit said.
In return, the “New York Times” accused Trump “Bestleung tactics” and gave the lawsuit in the online service X completely unfounded. Most recently, the sheet had reported on a suggestive birthday letter that Trump is said to have written to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. The White House denies the authenticity of writing.
Trump has been an unprecedented way against the media, political opponents, universities or law firms since he took office in January. Since the assassination attempt on Trump’s supporter Charlie Kirk last week, his government has also announced a tough procedure against allegedly left “terror network”, which it sees behind the crime.
Because of critical statements by the well-known television presenter Jimmy Kimmel about the reaction of the Trump camp to Kirk’s death, his late night show was discontinued at short notice. Other moderators then spoke of “censorship”.
In July, Trump also submitted a billion dollar lawsuit against Medienmogul Rupert Murdoch and the “Wall Street Journal” after the sheet also reported on the Epstein letter. Trump demands at least ten billion dollars (around 8.6 billion euros) from Murdoch and his newspaper. The broadcasters ABC and CBS News also got into Trump’s visor and agreed to him in millions of payments.
The “New York Times”, founded in 1851, is one of the leading daily newspapers of the United States. It is characterized by her research, her investigative journalism and her extensive international reporting. With more than 130 Pulitzer prices, she holds a record. Before the presidential election in November, the paper called for the democrat Kamala Harris and not Trump.
