United States: Court dismisses Donald Trump's complaint against the New York Times
A US federal judge on Friday, September 19, dismissed President Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times as it stood, declaring it "inadmissible" and giving him four weeks to reformulate it.
The 85-page complaint filed on September 15 against the New York Times , from which Donald Trump is demanding the astronomical sum of 15 billion dollars, violates the rules of procedure, says Judge Steven Merryday, considering it "inappropriate and inadmissible" .
It is therefore "rejected with permission to amend it within 28 days" , in a format not exceeding 40 pages, according to the text of the decision.
The judge deplores a litany of unsupported allusions or allegations, without the complainant clearly stating his grievances, according to him.
In the lawsuit against the newspaper and four of its journalists, as well as a publishing house that published two of them, Donald Trump attacks a "derogatory book" about the origin of his fortune and "three false, malicious, defamatory and derogatory articles."
"This lawsuit is baseless," responded the most famous American daily. "It is not based on any legitimate legal claim and is aimed solely at muzzling and discouraging independent journalism."
The lawsuit comes days after Trump threatened to sue The New York Times after it published articles about a salacious birthday letter attributed to him in 2003 to businessman Jeffrey Epstein . Epstein was found dead in his cell in 2019 ahead of his trial for sexual exploitation.
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