President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is filing a $15 billion defamation and libel lawsuit against The New York Times and four of its journalists. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for Florida’s Middle District, targeting the newspaper over its coverage of his 2024 presidential campaign.
The lawsuit targets specific articles and a book published during Trump’s campaign. The named defendants include The New York Times Company, reporters Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner, Peter Baker and Michael S. Schmidt, plus publisher Penguin Random House. The suit focuses on the book Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success, written by Craig and Buettner, along with three Times articles published in 2024.
