A judge has dismissed former President Donald Trump's lawsuit against The New York Times. Trump sued the paper after it published a 2018 story on Trump family business dealings and Trump's "dubious tax schemes during the 1990s." Trump's lawsuit, filed in 2021, accused the paper and three of its reporters of conspiring with his niece, Mary Trump, to get his tax records through illegal means. He sought $100 million in damages.
"The crux of [Trump's] claim is that a reporter for The Times caused his niece, Mary Trump, to take 20-year-old tax and financial documents held by her lawyer and disclose them in violation of a 2001 settlement agreement," noted Justice Robert R. Reed of Manhattan's Supreme Court.
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"Courts have long recognized that reporters are entitled to engage in legal and ordinary news-gathering activities without fear of tort liability — as these actions are at the very core of protected First Amendment activity," Reed wrote.
The judge ordered Trump to pay the legal fees of the three Times reporters he sued and the paper's legal fees.
No doubt that he'll be on his failing Nazi Twitter platform to complain that the courts are being so, so unfair to him.
"No doubt that he'll be on his failing Nazi Twitter platform to complain that the courts are being so, so unfair to him. "
ReplyDelete...and demanding donations from his MAGAts to pay for his fraud and stupidity.
The part I liked most was TOFF has to pay for his stupid actions direct or indirect. I can imagine the legal fees encountered by the NYT and the reporters were not trivial.
ReplyDeleteSure they may never collect, but i like the idea of large liens against TOFF and or his properties as that may factor into his future dealings.
Eck!
Is it still out of the country?
ReplyDeleteIn Ireland, running his mouth about the usual bullshit.
ReplyDeleteThe creaures of the Right who open their mouths and the most preposterous (if not evil) flapdoodle comes gushing out....which they and their followers think is profound. MTG, DJT and their fellow minions throughout the land.
ReplyDeleteWe need an update to Mencken's prophesy of 100 years ago to account for our present looney Right...back then, he said:
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents,
more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach
their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”