Former U.S. President Donald Trump has filed a $15bn lawsuit against The New York Times, accusing the paper of defamation and bias over its 2024 endorsement of Kamala Harris.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has announced plans to sue The New York Times for $15 billion, accusing the newspaper 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 post on his Truth Social platform on Monday.
He specifically criticised the newspaper’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election, calling the outlet a “mouthpiece for the Radical Left Democrat Party.” Trump added that the lawsuit would be filed in Florida, describing the state as a Republican stronghold.
Trump also denounced the Times’ decision to place Harris’s endorsement on its front page, writing:
Their Endorsement of Kamala Harris was actually put dead center on the front page of The New York Times, something heretofore UNHEARD OF!
In the same post, he accused other media organisations and television programmes of “smearing” him through what he described as “a highly sophisticated system of document and visual alteration.”
This latest action adds to a long list of Trump’s legal battles with major media outlets. In 2023, a judge dismissed a $100 million lawsuit he filed against The New York Times and his estranged niece, Mary Trump, which alleged “an insidious plot” to obtain his tax records. The series of reports won the paper a Pulitzer Prize.
That same year, Trump also failed in a $475 million defamation case against CNN, which he accused of comparing him to Adolf Hitler. A federal judge later threw out the suit.
As of press time, The New York Times has not responded to Trump’s latest claims.
(BBC)
Edited by Aremu Toyeebaht
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