Trump Gets A Court Win

A federal judge on Monday deferred The New York Times’ motion to dismiss President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit, allowing the president to file an amended complaint and prompting him to declare a legal victory.

U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday of the Middle District of Florida ruled that Trump’s attorneys have until Aug. 27 to submit a revised complaint. The judge did not explain why changes were needed but said the newspaper will then have three weeks to respond to the updated filing before the court considers the dismissal request.

Trump celebrated the order on Truth Social, writing that the “Failing New York Times, after 10 years of harassment, slander, and libel, just failed again in their desperate attempt to have our powerful Defamation Lawsuit against them dropped.” 

He added that the “Highly Respected Judge has called for an updated complaint, which will lay out, in extreme detail, all the ways in which The Times has repeatedly and consistently acted, with actual malice in defaming me, my family, our Great MAGA Movement, and America, itself.”