In a Truth Social post announcing the suit, Trump accused the paper of 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.”
President Donald Trump filed a US$15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, accusing the paper of serving as a “mouthpiece” for the Democrats and pitting himself against one of the world’s oldest and most prominent news organisations.
In the lawsuit, Trump criticised the Times’ “deranged” endorsement of former presidential candidate Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, saying it was featured prominently on the paper’s front page and included a “hyperbolic” opening line that it’s “hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump.”
