Federal Judge Tosses Trump’s Lawsuit Against New York Times

A federal district judge in Florida threw out President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against The New York Times on Sept. 19.
U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday said in a ruling that the lawsuit as it currently stands violates court rules.
The suit “stands unmistakably and inexcusably athwart the requirements of Rule 8” of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,” the judge said.
Trump filed the lawsuit over articles and a book written by two New York Times reporters and published during the height of the 2024 election, alleging that they were crafted with “actual malice, calculated to inflict maximum damage” on him….

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