A federal judge declined to dismiss President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the New York Times on Monday, giving him roughly four weeks to amend his case after the outlet moved to toss it on First Amendment grounds.District Judge Steven Merryday gave Trump’s legal team until Aug. 27 to amend and refile his $15 billion defamation against the New York Times. The federal judge postponed a ruling on the publication’s motion to dismiss the case in Florida or have it transferred to the Southern District of New York, a development that marked a victory for the president, who celebrated the court’s decision on Truth Social.
“The Failing New York Times, after 10 years of harassment, slander, and libel, just failed again in their desperate attempt to have our powerful Defamation Lawsuit against them dropped,” Trump wrote in a post to the platform. “As we requested, the Highly Respected Judge has called for an updated complaint, which will lay out, in extreme detail, all the ways in which The Times has repeatedly and consistently acted, with actual malice in defaming me, my family, our Great MAGA Movement, and America itself. We will continue to hold The Times and their ‘comrades’ in the Mainstream Media accountable for publishing, promoting, and dealing in Fake News.”
