President Donald Trump seeks $ 15 billion in damage to New York Times and Penguin Random House in a demand for defamation that alleges that the newspaper and the editor dedicated themselves to a campaign to damage their reputation before the 2024 elections.
Alleging that the Times has become a “falsity supplier” leaders, and without apologies, “Trump’s lawyers argued that a series of articles on Trump, including a report that the former chief of Trump’s cabinet, John Kelly, warned that the president would govern as a dictator, an article on the realization of” the apprentice “, and a report on the controversy that followed the controversy To Trump, he was equivalent to Libel.
Filed in the middle district of Florida, the demand names the New York Times and Times Peter Baker, Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Michael Schmidt as accused. The lawsuit also appoints Penguin Random House, the editor of Craig and Buettner’s book “Lucky loser: how Donald Trump wasted his father’s fortune and created the illusion of success,” as accused.
“Today, The Times is a full story nozzle of the Democratic Party. The newspaper editorial routine is now a defamation and defamation at an industrial scale against political opponents,” said the demand.
Trump’s lawyers claim that the New York Times and Penguin Random House sought not only to damage the “worldwide reputation of the president and world renown for business success”, but also harmed their possibilities to win the 2024 elections.
“President Trump brumps this demand to highlight that principle and clearly indicate to all exhausted and furious Americans in the decades of journalistic corruption, that the era of deliberate defamation and deliberate by the times and other inherited media has ended,” said the demand.
A New York Times spokesman said the demand has no merit.
President Donald Trump speaks at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on September 15, 2025.
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“It lacks any legitimate legal claim and, on the other hand, is an attempt to suffocate and discourage independent reports,” said Times spokesman. “The New York Times will not be dissuaded by intimidation tactics. We will continue pursuing the facts without fear or favor and we will defend the right of the first amendment of journalists to ask questions in the name of the US people.”
Penguin Random House did not immediately respond to a request for comments from ABC News.
“The transcendent capacity of President Trump to challenge unfair conventions has been vividly reflected in his successful company to restore integrity to journalism and repair the immense damage caused by the inherited media, such as the times, during most of a decade,” the lawsuit said.
In July, Trump filed a demand of $ 10 billion against the Wall Street Journal After the Journal reported that Trump allegedly sent Jeffery Epstein to a very obscene letter in 2003 that it was included in a book Made for Epstein’s 50th birthday, Trump has denied.
In response to that lawsuit, a spokesman for the owner of Dow Jones magazine said: “We have full confidence in the rigor and precision of our reports, and we will defend vigorously against any demand.”
