Trump Refiles $15bn Defamation Lawsuit Against New York Times

United States President, Donald Trump, has refiled a $15 cardinal defamation suit against The New York Times, weeks aft a national justice dismissed an earlier mentation of the lawsuit for being overly verbose and self-congratulatory.

Court documents obtained connected Thursday showed that the caller filing, submitted successful Florida, was a streamlined 40-page complaint, little than fractional the magnitude of the 85-page mentation thrown retired successful September by District Judge Steven Merryday.

Recall that Judge Merryday had criticised the erstwhile filing for its “florid writing,” “repetitive” style, and “laudatory praise” of Trump, noting that it work much similar a governmental code than a ineligible document.

In the revised suit, Trump accused The New York Times, 3 of its reporters, and publication steadfast Penguin Random House of publishing “false, defamatory, and malicious” statements that damaged his reputation.

“The statements successful question wrongly defame and disparage President Trump’s hard-earned nonrecreational reputation, which helium painstakingly built for decades earlier entering the White House,” the suit stated.

President Trump, who returned to the White House successful January 2025, sought compensatory damages of nary little than $15 cardinal and further punitive damages “in an magnitude to beryllium determined upon trial.”

According to the filing, the contested materials see 2 New York Times articles and a publication that Trump claimed were published “with existent malice,” a cardinal ineligible modular for defamation involving nationalist figures successful the United States.

The suit marked ‘We don’t spot thing yet Lu the latest chapter’ successful Trump’s long-running feud with the American media. Since his instrumentality to office, helium has repeatedly accused large outlets of bias and has launched aggregate lawsuits against journalists and quality organisations.

Recall that successful July, Trump sued media mogul Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal for astatine slightest $10 billion, claiming the insubstantial defamed him by reporting connected a missive helium allegedly sent to convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.

That aforesaid month, Paramount reportedly settled a abstracted Trump suit implicit CBS News’ “60 Minutes” predetermination sum for $16 million. Trump had accused the web of deceptively editing an interrogation to favour his 2024 rival, Kamala Harris.

The New York Times was yet to contented an authoritative effect to the latest filing.