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Donald Trump grew up in Queens, a very pleasant neighborhood, no doubt, but remains an external district.
On the other side of the East River is the gleaming horizon of what those who do not live there call “the city.” And in the middle of that island is the New York Times building.
When The Times found the real estate developer worth profile, in 1976, it was a piece of puff pastry at first sight:
“It is tall, thin and blond, with dazzling white teeth, and Robert Redford looks a lot.
Trump announces a demand of $ 15 billion against the New York Times for defamation, defamation
President Donald Trump is now demanding the New York Times in a defamation case of $ 15 billion. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Redford’s reference is now sadly dated due to the death of the actor as he sleeps (“the good way to follow, I suppose,” says Trump.) But in the piece, the “fast talkative” acknowledged that his father, Fred Trump, who built the class to break the Manhattan market due to the “psychology.”
(My favorite phrase: “Mr. Trump, who says he is shy advertising, allowed a journalist to accompany him in what he described as a typical work day.”
I bring all this, like a type of Brooklyn who has lived in Queens, to underline how the president has always longed for the newspaper approach.
Trump points to CNN and New York Times about Iran’s Strike coverage, but journalists are injecting
And he got it, although the tabloids loved their disputes even more, until he entered politics.
Now the president has filed a demand of $ 15 billion against the New York Times.
It is a strange suit, and has a snowball opportunity in the hell of happening.
A statement of the times that the demand “has no merit.” (Alexandra Schuler/Picture Alliance through Getty Images)
A statement of the Times says: “This lawsuit has no merit. It lacks legitimate legal claims and, on the other hand, is an attempt to suffocate and discourage independent reports.” The strange thing is that there was no trigger story, nor a specific inaccuracy alleged. That is in a marked contrast with the president’s successful demands against CBS and ABC.
Or the course, submit a lawsuit, which even forces the largest companies to spend a fortune on legal fees, is the point.
In the 1980s, Trump sued the Chicago Tribune Architecture critic winning Pulitzer, Paul Gapp, for $ 500 million, for criticizing his plan to build the tallest building in the United States, a 150 -story tower in Manhattan. “One of the most silly things that anyone could inflict in New York or any other city,” Gapp wrote.
Trump said he had “virtual scoring” the project, subjecting it to “public ridiculous and contempt.” Later, a judge dismissed the lawsuit as a protected opinion.
The new demand names reporters such as the main correspondent of the White House, Peter Baker, and research journalist Michael Schmidt. He also appoints Susanne Craig and Ross Buettner, partly for his book “Lucky loser: how Donald Trump wasted his father’s fortune and created the illusion of success.”
Craig revealed some of Trump’s tax statements, and she and her team won a Pulitzer for informing about their finances.
In the case of ABC, the network was formed with $ 16 million for George Stephanopoulos, after having said that Trump was considered responsible for the violation, not the “sexual abuse”, in the civil suite presented by E. Jean Carroll.
CBS also agreed to pay $ 16 million after the little ethical edition of the Kamala Harris interview in “60 minutes”, so that it sounds more coherent.
It also has the parent company of the Wall Street Journal for informing Jeffrey Epstein, which continues to deny, although the message of the predator files has emerged with many similarities.
The CBS parent company causes massive outrage with the Trump demand agreement
In the demand against the Times, presented in Florida, the president only destroys his campaign coverage. He says that in social truth is moving against “one of the sausage documents and most swords in the history of our country, becoming a virtual” nozzle “for the Radical Democratic Party Left.
I am leaving a limb to say that executing an editorial on the cover is in the category of freedom of expression, and many documents have done so occasionally.
And remember, as the last public figure, Trump would have to demonstrate malice on the part of the newspaper, or reckless contempt in case something is true or not.
ABC was formed with $ 16 million in its demand involved by Trump. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)
Since the president’s coverage is too negative, let’s say that the Times is leading the resistance.
Trump’s demand blames “persistent electoral interference of inherited media.”
But unless a plaintiff can point out verifiable inaccuracy, falls under the protective umbrella of the reports and the opinion of the first amendment.
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With Marine One in the background yesterday, Jonathan Karl of ABC, whom Trump knows well, asked him about the criticism or investigations of Pam Bondi about the leftists: “Many people, many of your allies, say the speech of hate.”
“She would be likely to be after people like you! Because you treat me so unfairly! It’s hatred! You have a lot of hatred in your heart!”
A moment later, Trump said: “Maybe they will come after ABC. Well, ABC paid me $ 16 million recently for a form of hate speech, right? His company paid me $ 16 million for a form of hate speech, so maybe they stopped him.”
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For the president, a lawsuit is exercised as a weapon. That is why he is demanding the New York Times, the newspaper on the other side of the river, with which he has always had a relationship of love and hate, mostly hate.