"US President Donald Trump has filed a $15 billion (12.7 billion) defamation lawsuit against the New York Times according to court documents published late on Monday. The suit claims there is a "decades-long pattern by The New York Times of intentional and malicious defamation against President Trump." In the filing, Trump's lawyers single out four journalists as well as the paper itself. It claims these journalists wrote a series of articles and a book that show a "reckless disregard" for the truth."
"Last week, the paper once again drew Trump's ire for publishing a note bearing his signature that appeared in a "birthday book" for the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The note is sexually suggestive, leading to renewed conversation about how much the president knew about Epstein's criminal behavior. Series of lawsuits targeting media outlets The suit against the times is the latest in a series targeting the US media. In July, he filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over an article linking him to Epstein. The lawsuit also targeted arch-conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose conglomerate owns the Journal. He has also sued television networks ABC and CBS, both of which settled with the president for millions of dollars."
Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times alleging a decades-long pattern of intentional and malicious defamation. The filing singles out four journalists and the paper, alleging articles and a book showed a "reckless disregard" for the truth. A note bearing Trump's signature that appeared in a "birthday book" for Jeffrey Epstein is described as sexually suggestive and has renewed questions about how much Trump knew about Epstein's criminal behavior. The lawsuit is the latest in a series of legal actions targeting US media, including suits against the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, ABC and CBS.
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