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U.S. President Donald Trump has refiled a $15 cardinal defamation suit against The New York Times, tribunal documents show, weeks aft it was thrown retired by a national judge.
Mr. Trump has intensified his long-established hostility toward the media since his instrumentality to the White House and the suit is 1 of galore attacks against quality organisations helium accuses of bias against him.
The Times ailment was thrown retired successful September due to the fact that District Judge Steven Merryday took objection to its florid writing, repetitive and laudatory praise of Mr. Trump and its excessive 85-page length.
The suit filed connected Thursday (October 17, 2025) successful Florida and seen by AFP runs to little than fractional the length, astatine 40 pages. It takes purpose astatine “false, defamatory, and malicious publications”, highlighting a publication and 2 Times articles.
The suit named the newspaper, 3 Times reporters and the steadfast Penguin Random House arsenic defendants. It accuses them of making defamatory statements against Mr. Trump “with existent malice.”
“The statements successful question wrongly defame and disparage President Trump’s hard-earned nonrecreational reputation, which helium painstakingly built for decades” earlier entering the White House, the suit says.
The tribunal was asked to assistance compensatory damages of not little than $15 cardinal and further punitive damages “in an magnitude to beryllium determined upon trial.”
Mr. Trump’s attacks connected media outlets person seen him restrict access, badmouth journalists captious of his administration, and bring lawsuits demanding immense amounts of compensation.
In July, Mr. Trump sued media magnate Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal for astatine slightest $10 cardinal aft it reported connected the beingness of a publication and a letter, helium allegedly sent to enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Paramount settled Mr. Trump’s suit implicit predetermination sum connected CBS News’ flagship amusement “60 Minutes” for $16 cardinal the aforesaid month. He had alleged that the programme deceptively edited an interrogation with his 2024 predetermination rival, Kamala Harris, successful her favour.
