{"id":307797,"date":"2026-07-28T17:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307797\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:42:16","slug":"judge-rules-trump-can-amend-lawsuit-against-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307797\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rules Trump Can Amend Lawsuit Against The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA federal judge will allow Donald Trump<\/a> to again amend his defamation<\/a> lawsuit against The New York Times<\/a>, as the publication has moved to dismiss the litigation. <\/p>\n

\n\tU.S. District Judge Steven Merryday gave Trump until August 27 to file the new complaint.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump sued the Times in September, taking particular issue with the premise that Trump\u2019s celebrity fame was due to Mark Burnett and NBC\u2019s\u00a0The Apprentice.\u00a0It cited an article from Susanne Craig and Ross Buettner, also named as defendants, and their book\u00a0Lucky Loser.\u00a0Their article was headlined, \u201cThe Star-Making Machine That Created \u2018Donald Trump.’\u201d Penguin Random House<\/a> also is a defendant in the case, as is Peter Baker, who wrote a piece headlined, \u201cFor Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward a
Moment of Judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t.Merryday tossed out Trump\u2019s original lawsuit, but allowed the president to refile. He filed an amended complaint in October, pointing out individual passages in the book and Times articles. Among those cited: \u201cMark Burnett\u2019s The Apprentice fortified Trump\u2019s fact-free bubble, while also making it national and bankable in ways that Trump never did on his own.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Times and other defendants moved to dismiss the new complaint, arguing that the case was filed in an improper venue, Florida, rather than New York, and that Trump failed to \u201cplausibly allege actual malice.\u201d It also noted that \u201cmany of the challenged statements express the authors\u2019 subjective interpretations of undisputed facts, which are not capable of being proven false.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA hearing on the motion to dismiss was held last week, and the judge noted that Trump\u2019s team asked for time to \u201ccure any . . . deficiencies\u201d by showing \u201cwhy the Challenged Statements are not substantially true, along with additional facts and innuendo by Defendants to show why the Challenged Statements are defamatory, and additional evidence of actual malice for each Defendant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Truth Social on Monday, Trump wrote that the Times\u00a0\u201cjust failed again in their desperate attempt to have our powerful Defamation Lawsuit against them dropped. As we requested, the Highly Respected Judge has called for an updated complaint, which will lay out, in extreme detail, all the ways in which The Times has repeatedly and consistently acted, with actual malice in defaming me, my family, our Great MAGA Movement, and America, itself. We will continue to hold The Times and their \u2018comrades\u2019 in the Mainstream Media accountable for publishing, promoting, and dealing in Fake News.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCharlie Stadtlander, spokesperson for The Times, said in a statement that the judge\u2019s decision \u201cmakes no statement in support of the frivolous accusations in Mr. Trump\u2019s earlier complaint. To the contrary, the judge simply gives him yet another chance to draft a complaint that demonstrates any legal merit. The president has had this chance twice previously and failed each time. The Times stands by our journalism, and the president\u2019s legal pleadings will not change that or deter further reporting. We will continue to defend our reporters\u2019 constitutionally protected rights \u2014 and the public\u2019s right to know \u2014 and are confident in the laws that underpin them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge will allow Donald Trump to again amend his defamation lawsuit against The New York Times,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23409,153,17397,9,11,10,116436,5489],"class_list":["post-307797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-defamation","tag-donald-trump","tag-electionline","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-penguin-random-house","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}