Trump sues New York Times

Donald Trump has announced he's suing The New York Times, conscionable days aft helium threatened to bash truthful implicit its reporting into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

In a station connected his Truth Social platform, the US president said helium had "the Great Honor of bringing a $15bn Defamation and Libel Lawsuit" against "one of the worst and astir degenerate newspapers successful the History of our Country".

Mr Trump's lengthy station - made precocious connected Monday - is focused connected his content the outlet is bias towards the Democrats, citing the endorsement of Kamala Harris successful past year's statesmanlike election.

It has "been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame maine for acold excessively long", helium added.

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The suit - which has been brought successful Florida - comes aft Mr Trump raised the imaginable of suing the paper past week for publishing articles astir alleged notes helium had sent Epstein.

He dismissed the reporting arsenic false.

A lewd day connection Trump allegedly sent to the convicted enactment offender for his 50th day successful 2003 was published by the US Congress days later.

The pages are contained successful files from the property of the deceased billionaire paedophile, handed implicit to a Congressional committee.

The postulation of day tributes see a hand-drawing of a woman's body, signed "Donald". They besides incorporate a representation of Epstein holding an outsized cheque, signed by "DJTRUMP".

Mr Trump has maintained the enactment wasn't written by him, claiming the handwriting and signature bash not lucifer his own.

The "birthday book" besides included notes from erstwhile British curate Peter Mandelson, who has been sacked arsenic the UK's ambassador to the US over revelations astir his narration with Epstein.

Mr Trump has repeatedly denied immoderate impropriety involving Epstein, whom helium erstwhile counted arsenic a friend.

Responding to his archetypal menace to sue, a spokeswoman for The New York Times said past week: "Our journalists reported the facts, provided the ocular grounds and printed the president's denial. It's each determination for the American radical to spot and to marque up their ain minds about.

"We volition proceed to prosecute the facts without fearfulness oregon favour and basal up for journalists' First Amendment close to inquire questions connected behalf of the American people."