(Washington) US President Donald Trump announced on Monday evening to continue the New York Times For defamation, claiming $ 15 billion on a daily basis in a new episode of his campaign against the media.
” THE New York Times Was allowed to lie, slander and defame me freely for far too long, and it stops now! “Wrote Donald Trump on his social social platform, adding that the case would be tried in Florida.
“I have the great honor of bringing legal action for defamation and slander of $ 15 billion against the New York Times “He said.
The president calls the prestigious daily to be “one of the worse and degenerate newspapers in the history of our country”. He accuses him of being “a real spokesperson for the radical left-wing Democratic Party” and of having supported Kamala Harris during the last presidential campaign.
THE New York Times is “committed for decades against your favorite president (me!), My family, my business,” he wrote again.
The republican president had threatened last week to file a complaint against the New York daily newspaper, after the publication of articles devoted to a birthday letter, to the salated tone, attributed to Trump and addressed to the sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The head of state had assured that the signature appearing on this letter, dated 2003, was not his.
But the New York Times had maintained his version, published in particular several letters signed by the businessman in the late 90s or in the early 2000s, with signatures bearing a striking resemblance to that appearing on the 2003 letter.
“True malice”
In the 85 -page complaint, consulted by AFP, which targets the daily life and four of its journalists, as well as a publishing house which published two of them, Donald Trump attacks a “derogatory book” on the origin of his fortune and “three false, malicious, defamatory and disparaging articles”.
These articles were written “with real malice, calculated to inflict a maximum of damage” to his person, he still affirms in his complaint.
THE New York Times did not react immediately and did not mention a complaint on his site on Tuesday morning.
Donald Trump is not at his first complaint against media whom he considers hostile.
In July, he claimed at least ten billion dollars for defamation at Wall Street Journalthere again after the publication of an article attributing another Salace letter addressed to Jeffrey Epstein.
The American president also threatened the ABC and NBC news channels to deprive them of their authorization to issue, due to allegedly biased coverage against him.
These channels are “a branch of the Democratic Party and should, according to many, see their licenses revoked” by the FCC, the federal agency responsible for regulating telecommunications, he wrote in August on Truth Social.
