In a dramatic announcement on his social media platform, Truth Social, Donald Trump stated his intention to sue the New York Times for a staggering $15 billion. He claims the newspaper has been allowed to "freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops, NOW!"
Trump's upcoming lawsuit, which he says will be filed in Florida, targets the Times' 2024 presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris. He accused the paper of acting as a "mouthpiece for the Radical Left Democrat Party" and was particularly upset that the endorsement appeared "dead center on the front page... something heretofore UNHEARD OF!"
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This isn't Trump's first legal battle with the newspaper. In 2023, a judge dismissed a $100 million lawsuit he filed against the Times and his niece, Mary Trump, which related to a Pulitzer Prize-winning series on his financial history. The judge found that the claims "fail as a matter of constitutional law."
Trump has a track record of unsuccessful defamation suits. He also lost a $475 million lawsuit against CNN in 2023, which a federal judge threw out after Trump claimed the network had compared him to Adolf Hitler.