Federal judge tosses Trump's $15B defamation lawsuit against New York Times
A federal judge in Florida has tossed President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against New York Times
FILE- A police officer stands guard outside The New York Times building in New York, on June 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Florida on Friday tossed President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against New York Times.
The lawsuit named a book and an article written by Times reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig that focuses on Trump’s finances and his pre-presidency starring role in television’s “The Apprentice.”
Trump said in the lawsuit that they “maliciously peddled the fact-free narrative” that television producer Mark Burnett turned Trump into a celebrity — “even though at and prior to the time of publications defendants knew that President Trump was already a mega-celebrity and an enormous success in business.”
