After a federal judge tossed Donald Trump’s $15bn defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, book publisher Penguin Random House and two Times reporters last month, the US president filed a 40-page amended complaint on Thursday. US district court judge Steven Merryday in Florida gave Trump 28 days to refile and amend the action he threw out on 19 September. All but Schmidt are still named in the amended complaint. The amended complaint includes an itemized list of dozens of allegations tied to specific publications and statements. “Alleging only two simple counts of defamation, the complaint consumes 85 pages,” Merryday wrote.
