Trump says he's bringing €13 billion lawsuit against New York Times

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : The case is Trump v. New York Times Company, 8:25-cv-02487, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida (Tampa).
47% : Trump said.
43% : " In a Truth Social post announcing the suit, Trump accused the paper of a "decades long method of lying about your Favorite President (ME!), my family, business, the America First Movement, MAGA, and our Nation as a whole.
43% : Trump reached a settlement with Paramount Global in July over a lawsuit tied to CBS news network's 60 Minutes interview with then-Vice President Harris.
33% : " Trump has a history of suing the media over unfavourable coverage.
28% : But Trump has also faced setbacks, including a Manhattan judge's dismissal of his suit against journalist Bob Woodward and a publishing house over the release of interview recordings from his first term in office.
23% : The case, filed in federal court in Tampa, Florida, cites the Times' news and opinion articles as well as the 2024 book Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success, written by two of the paper's reporters.
19% : Trump referenced the Paramount and ABC settlements in his latest post, claiming "longterm INTENT and pattern of abuse, which is both unacceptable and illegal." "The New York Times has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops, NOW!"
18% : In July, he sued Dow Jones & Co., News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch for libel, seeking $10 billion in damages after the Wall Street Journal published a story alleging that Trump once sent a suggestive birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein.
17% : Under the 1964 Supreme Court case New York Times v. Sullivan, public figures such as Trump have a higher burden to prove libel: That the defendant knew that the statement was false or was reckless.
13% : After Trump criticized Times reporters in March, the newspaper accused the president of using "intimidation tactics."
12% : In 2009, when Trump was still a real estate developer, he lost his bid for $5 billion in libel damages from Timothy O'Brien, who was an editor at the Times and published a 2005 book questioning Trump's billionaire status.
7% : In the lawsuit, Trump criticized the Times' "deranged" endorsement of former presidential candidate Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, saying it was featured prominently on the paper's front page and included a "hyperbolic" opening line that it's "hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump.

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