A federal judge has tossed President Donald Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and Penguin Random House, calling the complaint "decidedly improper and impermissible." U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday on Friday struck the complaint and gave the president's lawyers 28 days to refile their lawsuit. "A complaint is not a megaphone for public relations or a podium for a passionate oration at a political rally or the functional equivalent of the Hyde Park Speakers' Corner," Merryday wrote. In the lawsuit, which was just filed on Tuesday, Trump's attorneys alleged that the Times has become a "leading, and unapologetic, purveyor of falsehoods," arguing that a series of articles about Trump -- including a report that Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly warned

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