President has accused paper of trying to damage his ‘business, personal and political reputation’
Donald Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, book publisher Penguin and several Times reporters in a district court in Florida on Monday night, accusing them of reporting “specifically designed to try and damage President Trump’s business, personal and political reputation”.
Trump seeks $15bn, plus punitive damages, court costs and “other relief”. Here’s a brief look at what’s in the filing.
The suit focuses on the publication of a set of news articles in the New York Times describing his work on the television show The Apprentice and stories derived from the book Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success by Times reporters Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner.
Trump’s suit argues that passages in Times’ reporting describing Apprentice producer Mark Burnett’s “discovery” of Trump as a potential host for the show is factually incorrect because Trump had long been famous before the show began.
