Trump has sued the NYT for defamation and libel, and is seeking $15 billion. With Trump it's always in the billions of dollars. Not just NYT, Trump has also sued 'Penguin', both for defamation. The lawsuit claims harm to Trump's business, and personal reputation. The United States President is a businessman and has a partner in Pakistan. So goes the word though nothing is sure in Trump's shady second term. Trump has sued the New York Times, four of its reporters, and Penguin Random House, claiming defamation and libel. The lawsuit cited "reputational damage."

To millions of NYT readers "reputational damage" and Trump are strangers. The New York Times reader has never been a Trump lover. And the MAGA isn't the movement the average NYT reader joined, not even to know what MAGA meant to the electorate, the so-called "deplorables". If the NYT has unconcealed contempt for Trump, Trump himself has nothing but death for the "failing New York Times".

It is a mutual "death to you" club. Among others an editorial prior to the 2024 presidential election, which said he was unfit for office, and a 2024 book published by Penguin titled "Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success" are at the centre of Trump's lawsuit.

"Defendants maliciously published the Book and the Articles knowing that these publications were filled with repugnant distortions and fabrications about President Trump," says the filing lodged on Monday in the U.S. District Court, Middle District Florida, Trump's stomping ground for the years he was out in the political wilderness after the fracas outside the US Capitol.

Trump turned Floridian only after a lifetime in New York City and for sure Trump's staple newspaper must always have been the NYT, the never-failing New York Times. Also, Trump was also a lifelong Democrat before turning into a Republican and now the topmost Republican in the realm. Trump's visceral hatred for NYT isn't going away and the NYT's editorials aren't going to spare Trump $15 billion lawsuit or not.

Has the New York Times and Penguin harmed Trump's business and personal reputation? Have they caused massive economic damage to his brand value? Have they done major damage to his financial future? "The harm to the value of TMTG (Trump dollars Media and Technology Group) stock is one example of how the Defendants’ defamation has injured President Trump," said his lawyers.

TMTG stock is under pressure. The filing came after Trump threatened to sue the New York Times last week for its reporting on an allegedly sexually suggestive note and drawing given to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and sex offender who died by suicide in a New York prison cell in 2019. The dead Epstein has been dogging President Trump right from the time Trump took over from Joe Biden.

Trump has always claimed innocence and denied any truck with Epstein and that he had parted ways with Epstein much before the financier's legal troubles became the talking point, which was in 2006. "Today, I have the Great Honour of bringing a $15 Billion Dollar Defamation and Libel Lawsuit against The New York Times," Trump said on Monday on Truth Social.

As expected, Trump called out the NYT for "lying", for targeting him, his family and his businesses, as also his Republican-led movements and ideologies including the America First Movement, and MAGA.

There are allegations Trump has been gunning for anti-Trump media companies. Before this he sued the Wall Street Journal. He also sued Rupert Murdoch for $10 billion for a report that said his name was on a 2003 birthday greeting for Epstein. There are strong indicators that Epstein and Donald Trump may not be going their different ways anytime soon.

As for NYT and President Donald Trump, these two have a lot in common and a lot that is uncommon. President Trump will stick to NYT till as long as he's in office though there are reports Trump might be "forced out of office" because of the Epstein thing. Trump suing NYT isn't unexpected. It is a term too late. Whatever happens is however unknown. (IPA Service)