US president Donald Trump says he will sue New York Times for $15bn

US President Donald Trump has stated he’ll sue the New York Occasions for $15bn (£11bn) over what the US president calls 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, Fact Social, on Monday. He singled out the Occasions’ endorsement of Kamala Harris within the final presidential election in 2024, saying it had develop into a “mouthpiece for the Radical Left Democrat Celebration”. Trump added that his lawsuit was being launched in Florida, a Republican stronghold. The BBC has reached out to the newspaper for a remark.Trump has lengthy expressed displeasure at what he payments left-leaning media shops unfavourable to his presidency.In a publish late on Monday, Trump took concern on the Occasions’ endorsement of his election rival, saying: “Their Endorsement of Kamala Harris was truly put lifeless heart on the entrance web page of The New York Occasions, one thing heretofore UNHEARD OF!”Within the publish he additionally accused different media shops or TV programmes of “smearing” him via “a extremely subtle system of doc and visible alteration”. It’s not 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, towards the New York Occasions, saying the claims within the lawsuit “fail as a matter of constitutional regulation”.The $100m (£79m) lawsuit accused the newspaper and Trump’s estranged niece, Mary Trump, of “an insidious plot” to acquire his tax data.It was filed in 2021 and pertains to a Pulitzer Prize-winning sequence 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.