Tuesday 16/Sep/2025 – 10:12 AM
US President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the New York Times, and four of its journalists, and the publishing house Panjoin Random House, calling for compensation of at least $ 15 billion on charges of defamation and slander, according to documents presented to a federal court in Florida on Monday.
Trump resides a lawsuit against the New York Times
According to Reuters, the lawsuit is based on a series of articles published by the New York Times, including an editorial before the 2024 presidential elections, describing Trump as not qualified to take over the position, in addition to a book issued by Panjoin in 2024 entitled The Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump dispelled his father’s wealth and created the illusion of success.
The text of the lawsuit stated that the defendants published the book and articles with a malicious intention, knowing that it is full of distortions and slanders about President Trump.
Trump’s lawyers emphasized that these publications caused damage to his personal and commercial reputation and caused severe economic losses to the value of his brand, and they also indicated that the decline in the share of Trump Media and Technology is an example of the damage caused by defamation.
The report pointed out that the company’s share is facing pressure in recent months, amid fears of the end of the ban on its inclusion in the market last March.
Trump filed the lawsuit a few days after he threatened to prosecute the New York Times for covering a memorandum and a drawing said to be a sexual nature linked to Cevry Epstein.
It should be noted that Epstein, a financier of sexual crimes, died in a prison in a prison in New York in 2019, and Trump had previously confirmed that he had ended his relationship with him before revealing his legal problems in 2006.
Trump announced on his platform Truth Social that he had a great honor to file a $ 15 billion defamation and slander case against the New York Times, accusing the newspaper of lying about him and his family and actions, in addition to movements led by Republicans such as the American movement first and to make America great again.
In his second term, Trump has escalated his confrontation with the media institutions, as this year he filed a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its owners, including Robert Murdoch, calling for compensation of at least 10 billion dollars due to a report claiming that his name was among the professionals of Epsin’s birthday in 2003.
In July, Paramount, which owns CBS, agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by Trump, in which the news program accused 60 minutes of distorting an interview with former Vice President, Kamala Harris, was broadcast last October.
