U.S. President Donald Trump speaks throughout an occasion to signal a memorandum to ship federal assets to Memphis, Tennessee, for a surge towards native crime, within the Oval Office on the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 15, 2025.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday filed a $15 billion lawsuit towards The New York Times, alleging defamation and libel, and calling the newspaper a “mouthpiece” for the Democratic social gathering.
In a submit on Truth Social, Trump attacked the newspaper for being “a virtual ‘mouthpiece’ for the Radical Left Democratic Party,” whereas accusing it of creating false statements about him, his household and enterprise, with out elaborating on the allegations.
The lawsuit swimsuit has been introduced within the state of Florida, based on a court docket submitting.
Last week, Trump had threatened to sue the Times for its reporting on a sexually aggressive note and drawing that was given to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and appeared to have been signed by Trump. Epstein was charged as a intercourse offender and died by suicide in a New York jail cell in 2019.
The White House has denied that Trump was concerned within the creation of the observe, calling it a fabrication.
The Times didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s request for feedback.
“The New York Times has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops, NOW!” Trump mentioned.
Trump has initiated a flurry of defamation lawsuits towards media firms, accusing them of false or deceptive protection.
In the submit Monday, he talked about his fits towards ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos, in addition to Paramount over its 60 Minutes interview with then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris — which Trump alleged was introduced in because of the community’s “deceptive tampering” of Harris’ interview.
Those circumstances resulted in $15 million and $16 million settlement funds, respectively.
Trump has additionally introduced a $10 billion defamation swimsuit towards The Wall Street Journal for its article linking him to the Epstein observe.
The Journal’s article mentioned that the letter purportedly written by Trump to Epstein in 2003 was amongst paperwork reviewed by legal investigators who finally constructed legal circumstances towards Epstein and his convicted procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, who reportedly solicited the letter from the president.
Some information organizations have additionally sought legal actions to push again towards Trump over what they referred to as retaliatory actions and encroachment of press freedoms.
— CNBC’s Dan Mangan contributed to this report.