Federal judge tosses Trump’s defamation lawsuit against New York Times
TAMPA, FL (TIP): A federal judge in Florida on Friday, September 19, 2025, tossed U.S. President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against New York Times.
The lawsuit named a book and an article written by Times reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig that focuses on Mr. Trump’s finances and his pre-presidency starring role in television’s “The Apprentice”.
Mr. Trump said in the lawsuit that they “maliciously peddled the fact-free narrative” that television producer Mark Burnett turned Mr. Trump into a celebrity — “even though at and prior to the time of publications defendants knew that President Trump was already a mega-celebrity and an enormous success in business”.
(Source: AP)
