Trump Revises $15 Billion Defamation Suit Against NYT, Adding New Falsehood Claims
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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 28
Trump Revises $15 Billion Defamation Suit Against NYT, Adding New Falsehood Claims
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 28
Summary
Thursday’s amended filing adds detailed allegations that New York Times articles and a book by two Times journalists falsely portrayed Trump’s business record, and it tries to spell out how reporters acted with actual malice.
Judge Steven Merryday allowed Trump to revise the case last month while deferring a ruling on the Times’s motion to dismiss, after earlier dismissing the original complaint and Trump refiling it in October.
The suit names the Times, reporters Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner and Peter Baker, and publisher Penguin Random House; Trump is still seeking $15 billion in damages.
The Times and Penguin Random House again called the case meritless, and Trump has already seen similar lawsuits against the Times over its finances coverage and a 2019 opinion essay dismissed.