For all that “winning” he claimed he was going to be doing, all I keep seeing for former President Donald Trump is a hell of a lot of losing.
Back in May of 2023, New York Supreme Court Justice Robert R. Reed handed Trump a brutal loss when he slammed down a lawsuit the scandal-ridden ex-president brought up against the New York Times and three of the paper’s individual reporters. The lawsuit hailed from 2021, when Trump attempted to sue the publication and the reporters connected to it over their Pulitzer Prize-winning report on Donald’s financial portfolio — which, obviously, was less than flattering of the former POTUS. In his ruling, Judge Reed dismissed the ridiculous lawsuit, on the grounds that the Times reporters were “entitled to engage in legal and ordinary news-gathering activities without fear or tort liability — as their actions are at the very core of protected first amendment activity.”
Reed noted at the time that Trump’s allegations in the suit “fail as a matter of constitutional law.”
But that’s not the only loss Donald Trump is going to suffer in this nonsense case.
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One of the New York Times reporters who were named in Donald’s lawsuit, Susanne Craig, took to X (formerly known as Twitter) yesterday afternoon with a copy of a New York Supreme Court order that slams the ex-president with a $392,638.69 fine to cover the journalists’ legal fees in connection to the lawsuit that Craig calls “frivolous.”
This just happened: A New York State judge has ordered Donald Trump to pay The New York Times $392,638.69 for legal fees connected to a frivolous lawsuit he brought against the paper, two of my colleagues and me.👍https://t.co/17TJesOEn5
— Susanne Craig (@susannecraig) January 12, 2024
The judge’s newest decision specifically notes that over $229,000 of the $392,000 in legal fees must be paid out to Craig and her fellow Times reporter Russell Buettner, and $162,717 to NYT journalist David Barstow.
At this time, the former president has not yet publicly responded to the pricey ruling.
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