A federal judge, in a scathing decision, threw the defamation trial of $ 15 billion from US President Donald Times on Friday.
District judge Steven Merryday said that Trump’s complaint, as it was submitted, was “inappropriate and inadmissible” and that he gave his lawyers for 28 days to refuse it “in a professional and worthy manner”.
Merryday, appointed from Republican President George HW Bush, did not rule on the bottom of the complaint against the newspaper, but he spoke to his flowery writing, repetitive praise and praise of Trump and his excessive length of 85 pages.
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“A complaint is a short direct and direct declaration of affairs allegations sufficient to create a complaint for plausible compensation with,” said Merryday.
“Although lawyers receive a minimum of expressive latitude by pleading for the claim of a client, the complaint of this action extends far beyond the external limit of this latitude,” he said.
“A complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective,” said the judge, and “not a protected platform for rage against an opponent”.
Trump brought legal action against Times on Monday, adding to his growing list of legal attacks against press organizations he accuses of bias against him.
Trump, 79, has intensified his hostility established for a long time towards the media since his return to the White House, journalists repeatedly criticizing his administration, restricting access and bringing prosecution demanding enormous quantities of compensation.
Talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel was indefinitely suspended by ABC, owned by Disney, this week after the head of the federal communications committee threatened to cancel the broadcasting licenses on the comments that Kimmel made about the murder of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
‘No merit’
In his prosecution filed before a Federal Court of Florida, Trump accused the times of a “model of several decades” of smear pulled by feelings of “malice”.
“Times has become a leading and shameless lies against President Trump on the Legacy media landscape,” he said.
In an article on his social platform Truth, the republican president said: “The New York Times has been allowed to lie, lying freely and defamed me for too long, and that stops now!”
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The trial also appointed four times journalists and the publisher Penguin Random House as defendants.
Times rejected Trump’s case as having “no merit”.
“There is a lack of legitimate legal complaints and is rather an attempt to suffocate and discourage independent reports. The New York Times will not be dissuaded by intimidation tactics,” the newspaper said in a statement.
Trump’s trial allegedly alleged that the Times was unwinding from the best practices of the industry when covering, writing articles “in the most antagonistic and negative way” and not giving it enough time to respond before the publication.
“In other words, the accused hate President Trump founded in a disturbed way,” said the complaint.
The court was invited to grant compensatory damages of at least $ 15 billion and additional punitive interest damages “an amount to be determined during the trial”.
Although there are large constitutional protections for the American media, Trump was successful in similar proceedings against other press organizations, winning several million dollars of ABC and CBS belonging to Paramount.
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The colonies in these cases – which must be paid to the future presidential library of Trump – were considered motivated by the desire of mother companies of press organizations to remain in the good graces of Trump.
Trump also continued the Rupert Murdoch media tycoon and the Wall Street Journal for at least $ 10 billion after reporting in July on the existence of a birthday letter which he would have sent to the sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein.
