Trump says he’ll sue New York Times for $15bn

US President Donald Trump said Monday that helium is bringing a $15 cardinal “defamation and libel lawsuit” against the New York Times.

“The New York Times has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame maine for acold excessively long, and that stops, NOW!” helium wrote connected his Truth Social platform, adding the suit was being brought successful Florida.

AFP has contacted the New York Times for comment.

Trump decried the paper arsenic a “virtual ‘mouthpiece’ for the Radical Left Democrat Party” and accused it of lying astir his “family, business, the America First Movement, MAGA, and our Nation arsenic a whole.”

He provided nary grounds for his claims.

The quality outlet reported past week that Trump had threatened ineligible enactment against it successful narration to articles connected a lewd day enactment fixed to enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Republican president has denied authoring the note.

Trump has intensified his attacks connected accepted media since his instrumentality to the White House, repeatedly badmouthing journalists captious of his administration, restricting entree and bringing lawsuits.

He sued media magnate Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal for astatine slightest $10 cardinal successful July aft it published an nonfiction astir his relationship with Epstein.

Paramount settled Trump’s suit implicit predetermination sum connected CBS News’ flagship amusement “60 Minutes” for $16 cardinal the aforesaid month. He had alleged that the programme deceptively edited an interrogation with his 2024 predetermination rival, Kamala Harris, successful her favor.

AFP

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