The New York Times, in a statement Thursday, reiterated its position that Trump’s lawsuit was meritless and said that “nothing has changed” with the new filing. “As we said when this was first filed and again after the judge’s ruling to strike it: this lawsuit has no merit,” a Times spokesperson said in a statement. “As set forth below, Defendants originated and distributed these publications, and the defamatory statements about President Trump therein, with actual malice,” the revised complaint says. For example, he wrote, “in one of many, often repetitive, and laudatory (toward President Trump) but superfluous allegations, the pleader states, ‘”The Apprentice” represented the cultural magnitude of President Trump’s singular brilliance, which captured the [Z]eitgeist of our time. According to the lawsuit, Trump is demanding “not less than $10 billion” on two counts of defamation, for at least $20 billion total.

Source: The Times October 17, 2025 16:47 UTC