President Donald Trump has said he would sue the New York Times for $15bn over what he calls 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 posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Monday.
He singled out the Times’ endorsement of Kamala Harris in the last presidential election in 2024, saying it had become a “mouthpiece for the Radical Left Democrat Party”.
Trump added that his lawsuit was being launched in Florida, a Republican stronghold.
Trump has long expressed displeasure at what he bills left-leaning media outlets unfavourable to his presidency.
In a post late on Monday, Trump took issue at the Times’ endorsement of his election rival, saying: “Their Endorsement of Kamala Harris was actually put de.ad center on the front page of The New York Times, something heretofore UNHEARD OF!”
In the post he also accused other media outlets or TV programmes of “smearing” him through “a highly sophisticated system of document and visual alteration”.
It’s not the first time the US president seeks to sue the New York Times.
In 2023, a judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Trump, then an ex-president, against the New York Times, saying the claims in the lawsuit “fail as a matter of constitutional law”.
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