Judge strikes down Trump’s $15 billion suit against the New York Times

[Hollie]

They explain things you don't even know. So the news you see is heavily edited and censored, dude.

People who watch Kimmel and Colbert last night know what they are seeing on Fox today is a lie cause they saw the truth the night before.

No one has the “twoof” like little Jimmy, Colbert and squealy bobo have the “ twoof”

 

[JLW]

How lucky to have you goofy message board attorneys.

Lol.. It was the judge who called the lawsuit total bullshit and he was right. The Complaint was pure trash.

 

[Conservative from Georgia]

Trump just added another courtroom loss to his long list of failed lawsuits. A federal judge threw out his $15 billion case against the New York Times, blasting the filing as full of rants and self-praise instead of actual legal arguments. The judge made it clear: legal complaints aren’t campaign rallies.

Trump sued the New York Times because it published articles and a book about his business practices and finances that he falsely claimed were defamatory.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/judge-strikes-trumps-lawsuit-against-new-york-times-over-its-content-2025-09-19/

 

[Hollie]

Lol.. It was the judge who called the lawsuit total bullshit and he was right. The Complaint was pure trash.

LOL. You hang on the judge’s opinion because it appeals to your politico- religious ideology of TDS. As a learned message board attorney, why don’t you discuss the merits of the judge’s ruling.

“ total bullshit” doesn’t tell us much.

 

[Rambunctious]

Big deal... go soak some peanuts...

 

[JLW]

LOL. You hang on the judge’s opinion because it appeals to your politico- religious ideology of TDS. As a learned message board attorney, why don’t you discuss the merits of the judge’s ruling.

“ total bullshit” doesn’t tell us much.

I did you boob. See my post 19.

 

[Hollie]

I did you boob. See my post 19.

Nothing but copying and pasting. As a competent message board attorney I would have thought you could offer more than that.

But then, you’re just a cut and paster.

 

[JLW]

Nothing but copying and pasting.

My opinion was the same as the judge’s as I made clear in post 19. The Complaint was nothing more than a propaganda rag mixed with a litany of supposed grievances that the media did not treat him with respect. Trump, rather make that Trump’s donors, must have paid these lawyers big bucks to have them humiliate themselves like that.

 

[forkintheroad7]

Big deal... go soak some peanuts...

go soak his peanuts?

LOL

 

[Hollie]

My opinion was the same as the judge’s as I made clear in post 19. The Complaint was nothing more than a propaganda rag mixed with a litany of supposed grievances that the media did not treat him with respect. Trump, rather make that Trump’s donors, must have paid these lawyers big bucks to have them humiliate themselves like that.

Your legal opinion was to cut and paste the judge’s opinion.

 

[excalibur]

Trump just added another courtroom loss to his long list of failed lawsuits. A federal judge threw out his $15 billion case against the New York Times, blasting the filing as full of rants and self-praise instead of actual legal arguments. The judge made it clear: legal complaints aren’t campaign rallies.

Trump sued the New York Times because it published articles and a book about his business practices and finances that he falsely claimed were defamatory.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/judge-strikes-trumps-lawsuit-against-new-york-times-over-its-content-2025-09-19/

Actually, the judge gave the attorneys 4-weeks to refile. Mr. Faux conservative.

 

[JLW]

Your legal opinion was to cut and paste the judge’s opinion.

I am not here to write an exegesis on the judge’s opinion. The complaint is on-line as is the judge’s order. Some of the more entertaining aspects of the complaint, Trump attacking the NYTs editorial board for endorsing Kamala Harris, calling the Apprentice the cultural magnatude of Trump’s singular brilliance, Trump whining about Mar-a-Lago being worth 100 times more than 18 million dollars and on and on with that stupidity. The complaint was a joke.

 

[Hollie]

I am not here to write an exegesis on the judge’s opinion. The complaint is on-line as is the judge’s order. Some of the more entertaining aspects of the complaint, Trump attacking the NYTs editorial board for endorsing Kamala Harris, calling the Apprentice the cultural magnatude of Trump’s singular brilliance, Trump whining about Mar-a-Lago being worth 100 times more than 18 million dollars and on and on with that stupidity. The complaint was joke.

I thought were a learned message board attorney. Copy and pasting the opinions of others puts you in the league of the Joe Biden hall of fame plagiarists.

 

[0311]

A ridiculous waste of time and money – Trump is the worst president in US history.

Which is saying something when he shares that title with Herbert Hoover, Bush 41 and Bush 43 not to mention U.S. Grant and of course Trickey Dickey.

 

[meaner gene]

I am not here to write an exegesis on the judge’s opinion. The complaint is on-line as is the judge’s order. Some of the more entertaining aspects of the complaint, Trump attacking the NYTs editorial board for endorsing Kamala Harris, calling the Apprentice the cultural magnatude of Trump’s singular brilliance, Trump whining about Mar-a-Lago being worth 100 times more than 18 million dollars and on and on with that stupidity. The complaint was a joke.

As with Trumps lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch, the wall street journal, and it's reporters for $10 billion is equally frivolous.
At the center of the contention is that the Epstein "birthday letter" doesn't exist. And the reporters made up its description out of thin air.

Congress reviewed the original, and has a true copy of the letter, that exactly matches the reporting by the wall street journal.

Every time Trump files these multi-billion dollar lawsuits, the defendants should counter-sue for the same amount in defamation.

 

[justoffal]

People who support Trump are always claiming that Trump never loses in the courts. When I reply with "Trump did not win in court." One big comeback is "Trump won against Stephanopoulos' and his network" which of course is blatantly false as reality is that Stephanopoulos' employer 'settled" in court

Trump did not "win in court."


and a fuller context would add:
"Still, a federal judge in New York later ruled that it was accurate to say that Trump was found liable for rape in “common modern parlance.”"

In order to praise Trump, his supporters can only misrepresent facts. I feel for them, I really do.

Here we have another case of Maga Winning!

Judge strikes down Trump’s $15 billion suit against the New York Times​

Calling it “decidedly improper and impermissible,” Judge Steven D. Merryday slammed the 85-page complaint and said it could not stand.

A federal judge in Tampa struck down President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, saying that the 85-page complaint was “decidedly improper and impermissible” under the rules governing civil proceedings in federal court.

U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday, an appointee of President George H.W. Bush, issued a scathing ruling on Friday, lambasting the president and his lawyers for the lawsuit.

“In this action, a prominent American citizen (perhaps the most prominent American citizen) alleges defamation by a prominent American newspaper publisher (perhaps the most prominent American newspaper publisher) and by several other corporate and natural persons,” he wrote. “Alleging only two simple counts of defamation, the complaint consumes eighty-five pages. Count I appears on page eighty, and Count II appears on page eighty-three.”
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The White House declined to comment.

“President Trump will continue to hold the Fake News accountable through this powerhouse lawsuit against the New York Times, its reporters, and Penguin Random House, in accordance with the judge’s direction on logistics,” a spokesperson for Trump’s legal team wrote in a statement.

In addition to the legal issues at hand, Merryday bemoaned the writing.

“The reader of the complaint must labor through allegations, such as ‘a new journalistic low for the hopelessly compromised and tarnished ‘Gray Lady.' The reader must endure an allegation of ‘the desperate need to defame with a partisan spear rather than report with an authentic looking glass’ and an allegation that ‘the false narrative about ‘The Apprentice’ was just the tip of Defendants’ melting iceberg of falsehoods.’”

The judge said every lawyer should know that a complaint is not a “public forum for vituperation and invective” nor a “megaphone for public relations or a podium for a passionate oration at a political rally or the functional equivalent of the Hyde Park Speakers’ Corner.”
The judge said a new complaint may be filed within 28 days and must be under 40 pages long.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/19/judge-strikes-down-trumps-15-billion-suit-against-new-york-times/

Stupid post ...
A settlement is a quick victory you idiot.
It is regulated and monitored by the court.

Jo

 

[justoffal]

Trump just added another courtroom loss to his long list of failed lawsuits. A federal judge threw out his $15 billion case against the New York Times, blasting the filing as full of rants and self-praise instead of actual legal arguments. The judge made it clear: legal complaints aren’t campaign rallies.

Trump sued the New York Times because it published articles and a book about his business practices and finances that he falsely claimed were defamatory.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/judge-strikes-trumps-lawsuit-against-new-york-times-over-its-content-2025-09-19/

It's being appealed....