""Today, I have the Great Honor of bringing a $15 Billion Dollar Defamation and Libel Lawsuit against The New York Times, one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country," he screeched on his social media platform. "The New York Times has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops, NOW!""
""Contrary to the Times' and its reporters' apparent impression, the First Amendment has never furnished the Times-or Penguin, or anyone else-with an unqualified privilege to make false, malicious, and defamatory statements about its opponents in order to try and ruin their lives and livelihoods. President Trump brings this suit to highlight that principle and to clearly state to all Americans exhausted by, and furious at, the decades of journalistic corruption,""
""The suit names the Times, reporters Susanne Craig, Russ Beuttner, Peter Baker, and Michael Schmidt, along with Penguin Random House, LLC. In reality, most of the "defamatory" statements are located in Craig and Buettner's book Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success, published by Penguin Random House on September 17, 2024 - just inside New York's one-year statute of limitations for defamation!""
Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation and libel lawsuit naming The New York Times, reporters Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner, Peter Baker, Michael Schmidt, and Penguin Random House. The complaint emphasizes alleged systematic defamation by the Times and frames the damages demand as a defense of Americans against journalistic corruption. Many contested statements allegedly derive from Craig and Buettner's book Lucky Loser, published September 17, 2024, and assertedly fall within New York's one-year defamation statute of limitations. The filing leverages an aggressive ad damnum clause to amplify publicity and characterizes the suit as a fight for the "little guy."
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