U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an lawsuit to motion a memorandum to nonstop national resources to Memphis, Tennessee, for a surge against section crime, successful the Oval Office astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 15, 2025.
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U.S. President Donald Trump connected Monday said helium would record a $15 cardinal suit against The New York Times, alleging defamation and libel, and calling the paper a "mouthpiece" for the Democratic party.
In a station connected Truth Social, Trump attacked the paper for being "a virtual 'mouthpiece' for the Radical Left Democratic Party," portion accusing if of making mendacious statements astir him, his household and business, without elaborating connected the allegations.
The suit lawsuit was being brought successful the authorities of Florida, Trump said without providing further details.
Last week, Trump had threatened to writer the Times for its reporting connected a sexually assertive note and drafting that was fixed to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and appeared to person been signed by Trump.
The White House has denied that Trump was progressive successful the instauration of the note, calling it a fabrication.
The Times did not instantly respond to CNBC's petition for comments.
"The New York Times has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame maine for acold excessively long, and that stops, NOW!" Trump said.
In the post, helium besides mentioned his lawsuits against ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos, arsenic good arsenic Paramount implicit its 60 Minutes interrogation with the erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris.
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