‘He’s the biggest offender out there’: Trump escalates crackdown on free speech, sues NYT for $15B
MSNBC·2025-09-17 00:13
Amid the problems facing the country today, President Trump filed a new lawsuit against the New York Times for articles in a book that he thinks was unfairly negative towards him. He claims there were deliberate falsehoods about him and that also they did not note his successes. As a company, the New York Times is worth about $9 billion.Trump's lawyers claim to be seeking the madeup number of $15 billion. That is, for context, larger than the largest liel ruling ever. But if they did win that number, it wou ...