The judge considered the complaint ‘improper and inadmissible’, criticizing his political tone. The US president has 28 days to present a revised version.
A federal judge in the state of Florida rejected Donald Trump’s intention to process The New York Times, for defamation, with a claim for compensation of $ 15 billion.
Magistrate Steven D. Merryday qualified the intention as “decisively improper and inadmissible,” according to the court documents to which EFE had access.
In the text of the complaint, the title is accused of large-scale defamation and slander and it is claimed that several articles and a book published in 2024 undermined Trump’s image and his presidential candidacy.
The judge criticized the political tone of the complaint and granted Trump 28 days to present a revised version and limited to 40 pages, less than half of the 85th of now.
“A complaint is not a megaphone for public relations”
“A complaint is not a megaphone for public relations, nor a podium for passionate intervention in a political rally,” the judge wrote in his decision, emphasizing that the text was “inappropriate and inadmissible” and full of “tendenous arguments.”
The complaint, filed by Trump on Tuesday, accuses the newspaper and the publisher Penguin Random House.
The New York Times has reacted, saying it has no reason to correct the articles concerned and the editorial denied that your book make any defamation.
The diary defended its coverage, considering the complaint as something “unfounded” and a tactic to intimidate independent journalism.
A series of legal processes against means of information
This complaint is added to a series of legal processes presented by Trump against means of information, which highlights a legal confrontation strategy with critical journalism.
The Inter -American Press Society (SIP) pointed out that these types of processes seek to frighten independent journalism and violates fundamental principles enshrined in the first amendment.
“This action does not seek justice, but to use the courts as a political weapon to intimidate and punish the critical press. It is a direct attack on press freedom,” said SIP executive director, José Roberto Drutr.
Trump had already sued the New York Times for articles about his finances and taxes, published in 2018, based partly on confidential documents. Then the court declined the case and ordered Trump to pay $ 400,000 to the newspaper and three of its journalists for the court expenses in which they incurred.
