NYT Fires Back at Trump After Truth Social Rant in Defamation Battle

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The New York Times hit back against President Donald Trump after the commander in chief crowed about his “powerful Defamation lawsuit” against the outlet.

The Times took to X on Tuesday to bat down the president’s boast about the case, which survived a legal challenge from the outlet seeking to get the $15 billion lawsuit tossed.

On Monday, a Florida judge gave Trump’s lawyers until Aug. 27 to update and refile the case. It’s the second time that Trump’s legal team has been allowed to amend his legal filing.

The president crowed on his Truth Social platform about the legal decision.

“BREAKING NEWS: 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,” he wrote.

“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,” he added.

“We will continue to hold The Times and their ‘comrades’ in the Mainstream Media accountable for publishing, promoting, and dealing in Fake News. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

The Times — which recently battled the administration after federal prosecutors in New York subpoenaed four of its reporters — wasn’t having it.

“To the contrary, the judge simply gives him yet another chance to draft a complaint that demonstrates any legal merit,” according to the statement from Times spokesman Charlie Stadtlander.

The case was first tossed in September, when a judge slammed Trump’s legal team for using the public filing as “a public forum for vituperation and invective,” before allowing it to be amended.

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