BURSTPresident Trump filed a lawsuit against The New York Times late Monday in Florida, accusing the paper and four of its reporters of defamation and libel.
The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, listed several stories and a book written by two journalists before the 2024 presidential election, alleging they are part of the “decades-long pattern” by the Gray Lady of “intentional and malicious defamation against” the president.
“Overall, Defendants used the Book and the Articles to make numerous malicious, defamatory, and disparaging claims about President Trump based on distortion and fabrication," Trump’s legal team said, according to court documents. "The Book and the Articles recklessly disregard the truth that the President’s fortune was developed through business genius, creativity, perseverance, talent, authenticity and other unique traits."
“Not, as the Book and the Articles falsely claim, by luck, any semblance of wrongdoing, ‘twisting the rules,’ or reliance on government programs,” the prosecutors added.
The Hill has reached out to The Times for comment.
Trump announced the lawsuit in a late Monday post on Truth Social, accusing the news outlet of being “one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country, becoming a virtual ‘mouthpiece’ for the Radical Left Democrat Party.”
“The ‘Times’ has engaged in a decades long method of lying about your Favorite President (ME!), my family, business, the America First Movement, MAGA, and our Nation as a whole,” he wrote.
The president has ramped up his attacks on the media in recent months, including most recently suing The Wall Street Journal, two of its reporters, its publisher and media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The suit followed an explosive report detailing an alleged letter Trump sent to late, disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003.