FLORIDA – President Donald Trump has refiled a massive $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, weeks after a federal judge dismissed the original complaint, court documents show.
The new suit, filed in Florida on Thursday, has been shortened to 40 pages from its original 85-page length. It continues to target the newspaper, three of its reporters, and the publisher Penguin Random House, accusing them of producing “false, defamatory, and malicious publications.”
In September, District Judge Steven Merryday threw out the initial lawsuit, criticizing its “florid writing, repetitive and laudatory praise of Trump,” and excessive length.
The revised lawsuit alleges the defendants acted with “actual malice” and that their statements “wrongly defame and disparage President Trump’s hard-earned professional reputation.” It seeks compensatory damages of no less than $15 billion, in addition to punitive damages to be determined at trial.
This lawsuit is part of a broader pattern of legal challenges Trump has launched against media organizations since his return to the White House.
In July, Trump sued media magnate Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal for at least $10 billion.
That same month, Paramount settled a lawsuit from Trump for $16 million over a “60 Minutes” segment on CBS News that he alleged was deceptively edited.
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