The President Donald Trump Said Tuesday that he has filed a lawsuit against The New York Timesseveral of its reporters and the Penguin Random House publishing house alleging defamation and accusing the means of being a “virtual spokesman” of the Democratic Party.
Trump had already announced Monday night andN social truth that would sue the newspaper, which he described as “one of the worst and most degenerate” in the history of the country.
The demand It was filed in the South Florida court accompanied by copies of three articles that were published last year by the middle between September 14 and October 22, within the framework of the campaign for presidential elections.
The news is signed by the demanded reporters, Peter Baker, Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Michael S Schmidt.
Buettner and Craig are also the authors of the book ‘Loser lucky: how Donald Trump wasted his father’s fortune and created the illusion of success’, which was published last year by Penguin Random House, and which according to Trump includes defamatory statements.
Publications evoke Trump’s rise to fame at a time when his popularity was far from being the current one, they remember that he was convicted of falsifying commercial records and interviewing former allies of the current president who said the magnate fulfilled the definition of fascist and that if he was re -elected, as finally happened in 2024, he could govern as a dictator.
The lawsuit also reflects a letter sent to The New York Times and its publisher on behalf of Trump, who says that the time in which the newspaper “was considered the reference newspaper” has passed and accused him of being now “a spokesman for a living voice of the Democratic Party.”
“The Times has become one of the most shameless disseminators of known, malicious and defamatory falsehoods against President Donald J. Trump in the current panorama of traditional media,” added the letter.
The letter cites several of the supposedly defamatory articles against the Republican politician and accuses the reporters of making “false, malicious and defamatory statements”, including that “Trump received money from his father through fraudulent schemes of tax evasion.”
Both The New York Times, which alleged in another letter that they did not see any basis to correct any of the articles, as the editorial, which also denies incurred in a defamation in their book, responded in two letters reflected in the demand.
The New York Times affirmed That Trump’s demand lacks legal basis and constitutes an attempt to suppress and discourage the independent press.
The US laws make public figures such as Trump prevail in cases of defamationdemanding that they demonstrate that the defendants published information that they knew or should have known that it was false.
Trump had already previously sued the New York Times for articles on his finances and taxes published in 2018, based in part on confidential documents. However, the judge rejected his request and ordered Trump to pay $ 400,000 to the newspaper and three of his reporters for the legal expenses incurred
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