President Donald Trump took a victory lap Monday after a judge granted his legal team a chance to amend his $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.
“BREAKING NEWS: The Failing New York Times, after 10 years of harassment, slander, and libel, just failed again in their desperate attempt to have our powerful Defamation Lawsuit against them dropped,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “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 ‘comrades’ in the Mainstream Media accountable for publishing, promoting, and dealing in Fake News. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump added.
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According to a filing in the U.S. District Court for Florida’s Middle District in Tampa, Trump’s attorneys have until August 27 to amend the lawsuit.
The New York Times did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital‘s request for comment.
The suit alleged decades of defamation and libel by the Times over everything from how it reported on “The Apprentice” to its stories claiming he’d engaged in suspect tax maneuvers.
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The named defendants are The New York Times Company, reporters Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner, Peter Baker and Michael S. Schmidt, and Penguin Random House, which published “Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success,” which was authored by Craig and Buettner.
A spokesperson for The Times previously told Fox News Digital, “As we said when this was first filed and again after the judge’s ruling to strike it: this lawsuit has no merit. Nothing has changed today. This is merely an attempt to stifle independent reporting and generate PR attention, but The New York Times will not be deterred by intimidation tactics.”
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