President Donald Trump filed a federal demand for defamation against the New York Times on Monday, four of his reporters and Penguin Random House for coverage of his 2024 campaign.
The lawsuit, filed at the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, which covers the area where Trump resides outside the White House, accused the newspaper to try to ruin his reputation as a businessman, sink his campaign and prejudices of judges and jurors against him in the coverage of his campaign.
The reporters and defendants are Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner, Peter Baker and Michael S. Schmidt. Penguin Random House published a book by Craig and Buettner entitled “Lucky loser: how Donald Trump wasted his father’s fortune and created the illusion of success.”
Schmidt, Craig and Baker have spent time as MSNBC or NBC News analysts.
The newspaper claims that the demand “continued to spread false and defamatory content about President Trump” and refused to recognize that “he said the greatest personal and political achievement in American history” with his 2024 victory.
The demand individualizes an editorial of the New York Times that supports Democratic opponent Kamala Harris.
“He [editorial] The Board said hypocritically and without evidence that President Trump “would challenge the norms and dismantle the institutions that have strengthened our country,” says the demand.
He also points out three articles in 2024 by the reporters of the article appointed in the presentation of challenging narratives on Trump’s success as a businessman, looking at past scandals and analyzing his character as one who could move the oval office towards the dictatorship.
“Today, The Times is a complete throat nozzle for the Democratic Party,” says the presentation. “The newspaper editorial routine is now a defamation and defamation at an industrial scale against political opponents. As such, times have become a leading provider and without falsehood complexes against President Trump.”
Neither The New York Times, Penguin Random House nor the reporters appointed in the lawsuit immediately responded to comments requests on Tuesday. NBC News contacted MSNBC to comment.
The lawsuit includes letters sent by Trump’s lawyers to The New York Times and Penguin Random House in October, along with responses from the lawyers of the two media organizations. The letter to the Times demanded that he cease and give up making “false and defamatory statements” about the president, while listed a litany of complaints about the coverage of time.
David McCraw’s drafting room lawyer responded defending the reports in the articles mentioned by Trump’s lawyers.
“Little should be said about the rest of his letter, which is mainly a litany of personal complaints about the New York Times and his reporters, scored with falsehoods and based on the deeply problematic notion that anyone who dares to inform unfavorable facts about a presidential candidate is involved in “sabotage” (as opposite, for example, that contributes to the information of the information and the ideas that make our democracy and the ideas that make our information. possible), “sabotage”, according to the letter, according to the letter, according to the letter, which opposes the letter, which opposes the letter, which opposes the letter, which opposes the letter, which opposes the MCCr letter. to the Monday suit.
Carolyn K. Foley, senior vice president of Penguin Random House and associated general advisor, responded to Trump’s lawyer Edward Andrew Paltzik: “The fact that the authors of the book do not share their favorable vision of their client’s career, does not provide the basis for a complaint claim.”
Monday’s presentation seeks no less than $ 15 billion in compensatory damages for the alleged defamation, as well as non -specified punitive damages.
ABC and Paramount, the CBS parent company, have established demands filed by Trump and the president launched a new against the Wall Street Journal and its property in July.
