Trump will sue the New York Times for defamation, seeking $15 billion
Trump promises to sue the New York Times for $15 billion, denouncing Kamala Harris’ endorsement and charging the media with lies, bias, and slander.
US President Donald Trump declared on Monday that he is suing the New York Times for $15 billion (£11 billion), alleging libel and slander.
“For far too long, the New York Times has been free to mislead, disparage, and defame me; that must end NOW!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. He claimed that the Times is being sued in Florida for acting as a “mouthpiece for the Radical Left Democrat Party.”
“Their Endorsement of Kamala Harris was actually put dead center on the front page of The New York Times, something heretofore UNHEARD OF!” Trump especially denounced the newspaper’s 2024 endorsement of Harris, calling it unprecedented.
Additionally, he charged that media organizations were using “a highly sophisticated system of document and visual alteration” to “smear” him. The Times has not yet addressed the allegations.
Trump has previously clashed with the newspaper. His $100 million lawsuit alleging that Mary Trump and the Times conspired to steal his tax data for a Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé was dismissed by a judge in 2023. In the same year, he lost a $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN for comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
