Legal Analysis: Does Trump’s Lawsuit Against New York Times Stand a Chance?

By artappraiser on Wed, 02/26/2020 - 9:46pm |

By Colin Kalmbacher @ LawandCrime.com, Feb. 26

President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign filed a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times over an article from early 2019 which accused the 45th president of working with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin during the 2016 presidential election.

The lawsuit claims the outlet “knowingly published false and defamatory statements of and concerning plaintiff Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., claiming it had an ‘overarching deal’ with ‘Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy’ to ‘help in the campaign against Hillary Clinton‘ in exchange for ‘a new pro-Russian foreign policy.'”

The legal filing continues: [....]

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