President Trump is suing The New York Times for $15 billion for what he says in a post on his Truth Social platform is a years-long pattern of "defamation and libel" by the paper against him.

Mr. Trump claims in the post that the Times "has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops, NOW" and accuses the Times of "becoming a virtual 'mouthpiece' for the Radical Left Democrat Party."

He says the Times "has engaged in a decades long method of lying" about him, his family and the Trump Organization as well as "the America First Movement, MAGA, and our Nation as a whole."

Specifically, the 85 page-long suit cites a book written by two Times reporters and three articles, all published during the 2024 presidential campaign.

According to the suit, all

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