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Associated PressToday at 19:14
A federal judge in Florida on Friday has dismissed US President Donald Trump’s 15 billion-dollar (£11 billion) defamation lawsuit against the New York Times.
The lawsuit named a book and an article written by Times reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig that focuses on Mr Trump’s finances and his pre-presidency starring role in television’s The Apprentice.
Mr Trump said in the lawsuit that they “maliciously peddled the fact-free narrative” that television producer Mark Burnett turned Mr 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”.