US president Donald Trump says he'll sue New York Occasions for $15bn

[ad_1] US President Donald Trump has mentioned he'll sue the New York Occasions for $15bn (£11bn) over what he known as defamation and libel.

"The New York Occasions has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for a lot too lengthy, and that stops, NOW!" Trump posted on his social media platform, Reality Social, on Monday.

He singled out the Occasions' endorsement of Kamala Harris within the final presidential election in 2024, saying it had change into a "mouthpiece for the Radical Left Democrat Celebration".

A spokesperson for the newspaper mentioned the go well with was "an try to stifle and discourage impartial reporting", including it "has no benefit".

"The New York Occasions won't be deterred by intimidation techniques," the spokesperson added.

Trump mentioned that his lawsuit was being launched in Florida, a Republican stronghold.

He has lengthy expressed displeasure at what he payments left-leaning media retailers unfavourable to his presidency.

In a publish late on Monday, Trump took challenge on the Occasions' endorsement of his election rival, saying: "Their Endorsement of Kamala Harris was truly put useless middle on the entrance web page of The New York Occasions, one thing heretofore UNHEARD OF!"

Within the publish he additionally accused different media retailers or TV programmes of "smearing" him by way of "a extremely subtle system of doc and visible alteration".

ABC Information and Paramount's CBS Information each agreed to multimillion-dollar payouts to Trump to settle lawsuits introduced by the president in current months.

He has additionally launched a case in opposition to the Wall Avenue Journal over its reporting on the Epstein scandal.

This isn't the primary time Trump has sought to sue the New York Occasions.

In 2023, a choose has dismissed a lawsuit filed by him, then an ex-president, in opposition to the New York Occasions, saying the claims within the lawsuit "fail as a matter of constitutional legislation".

The $100m (£79m) lawsuit accused the newspaper and Trump's estranged niece, Mary Trump, of "an insidious plot" to acquire his tax information.

It was filed in 2021 and pertains to a Pulitzer Prize-winning collection on Trump's monetary affairs.

Trump additionally misplaced one other defamation bid in 2023, when he sought in useless to sue CNN for allegedly likening him to Adolf Hitler. A federal choose later threw out the $475m (£369m) lawsuit.

Clarification: This story has been up to date to incorporate the lawsuits in opposition to ABC Information and Paramount which ended with settlements in Trump's favour.