The Latest: Federal judge tosses Trump’s $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times

The Latest: Federal judge tosses Trump’s $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times Updated 24 mins ago A federal judge in Florida on Friday tossed President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times. The lawsuit named a book and an article written by Times reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig that focuses on Trump’s finances and his pre-presidency starring role in television’s “The Apprentice.” Trump said in the lawsuit that they “maliciously peddled the fact-free narrative” that television producer Mark Burnett turned Trump into a celebrity — “even though at and prior to the time of publications defendants knew that President Trump was already a mega-celebrity and an enormous success in business.”