"Donald Trump has sued the New York Times for, well, reporting on Trump. Rather than charging the Times with any specific libelous act, Trump's lawsuit is just another of his angry bloviations. The lawsuit says he's moving against one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country, becoming a virtual mouthpiece' for the Radical Left Democrat Party. And so on."
"At least he sued the Wall Street Journal's parent company for something specific: reporting Trump's birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein (which Trump continues to deny is his even though it showed up in the Epstein files released by a US House committee). Last year, Trump sued ABC and its host George Stephanopoulos for having said that Trump was found liable for rape rather than sexual abuse in the civil suit brought by E Jean Carroll."
"Defamation lawsuits are a longstanding part of Trump's repertoire, which he first learned at the feet of Roy Cohn, one of America's most notorious legal bullies. In the 1980s, Trump sued the Pulitzer-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Paul Gapp for $500m, for criticizing Trump's plan to build the world's tallest building in Manhattan, a 150-story tower that Gapp called one of the silliest things anyone could inflict on New York or any other city."
Donald Trump has filed numerous defamation suits against news organizations for reporting he dislikes. He sued the New York Times without alleging a specific libel and called it a 'mouthpiece' for the Radical Left Democrat Party. He sued the Wall Street Journal's parent company over reporting of a birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein. He sued ABC and George Stephanopoulos and settled for $16 million; CBS paid $16 million after a suit over an edited Kamala Harris interview. Defamation litigation became central to Trump's tactics after learning from Roy Cohn. Presidential defamation suits carry greater consequences because a president leads the government. The legal standard for defamation of a public figure governs these cases.
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