President Donald Trump has refiled his $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times — one month after a federal judge threw out his original 85-page complaint for being too long and “improper.”
The amended 40-page filing, submitted Thursday in Florida’s Middle District court , renews Trump’s claims that the paper and its reporters defamed him in coverage of his business career and his reality TV years.
The suit also targets Penguin Random House , which published the book “Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success” by Times journalists Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner.
Trump’s refiling follows a Sept. 19 order from US District Judge Steven Merryday, who dismissed the initial version as “decidedly improper and i