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Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump is suing the New York Times for defamation, demanding $15 billion in damages as part of his latest attack on the free press.

What does the lawsuit say? Trump alleges that three New York Times articles published in 2024 were written to undermine his campaign in the closing stretch of the election, and the suit names four Times journalists and the publisher of a book by two of the reporters, as co-defendants.

The suit also includes aggrandizing descriptions of Trump’s career, including his “magnificent real estate achievements” and his “sui generis charisma and uni

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