{"id":140494,"date":"2025-09-16T05:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140494\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T05:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:43:06","slug":"donald-trump-says-he-is-bringing-15bn-lawsuit-against-new-york-times-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140494\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says he is bringing $15bn lawsuit against New York Times | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Donald Trump says he has brought a $15bn lawsuit against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/new-york-times\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>, alleging defamation and libel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a social media post late on Monday, the US president accused the newspaper of a \u201cdecades long method of lying about your Favorite President (ME!), my family, business, the America First Movement, MAGA, and our Nation as a whole\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The president singled out the New York Times endorsement of Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election and said the paper had become a \u201cvirtual \u2018mouthpiece\u2019 for the Radical Left Democrat Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The lawsuit was being brought in Florida, he said, without providing further details. Reuters reported a court filing showed Trump suing the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He cited previous examples of lawsuits brought against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2024\/dec\/14\/abc-george-stephanopoulos-trump-15-million\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos<\/a>, as well as Paramount over its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/jul\/02\/paramount-settles-with-trump-for-16m-over-60-minutes-interview-with-kamala-harris\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris.<\/a> Both cases were settled for $15m and $16m respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The New York Times did not immediately respond to request for comment outside regular business hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">This is a breaking news story, please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says he has brought a $15bn lawsuit against the New York Times, alleging defamation and libel.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-140494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}