U.S. President Donald Trump has initiated a legal action against the American newspaper The New York Times and four of its journalists, claiming $15 billion in damages for defamation.

This was reported by AP.

The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Florida, references several articles and a book written by two of the paper’s journalists published just before the 2024 elections. The suit alleges that this is part of a long-standing scheme to deliberately and maliciously defame President Trump by The New York Times.

“The defendants published these statements knowing they were false and/or with reckless disregard for their falsity,” the lawsuit states.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump accused The New York Times of lying and defamation, asserting that the paper has effectively become “the mouthpiece of the radical left Democratic Party.”

In July, the U.S. president announced that his legal team had filed a lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and all those involved in publishing the scandalous Epstein memo that mentioned Trump.