The Washington Post - Trump just sued the New York Times and his niece. If history is a guide, he probably won’t win.
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Donald Trump has once again sued a news organization alleging that its reporting was unfair to him. If history is any guide, this one is also likely to generate a flurry of attention before quietly stalling out.
Trump’s latest lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, is aimed at the New York Times and his niece, Mary Trump. It centers on the Times’s publication in 2018 of a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of Trump’s alleged tax-avoidance tactics and the history of his family inheritance. ...
Trump has threatened to sue news organizations, including the Times, for decades, but has followed through on only a handful of occasions. ...
But the strategy behind Trump’s lawsuits may have less to do with winning a claim than reinforcing his long-standing refrain that he is a victim of “fake news,” bolstering his political standing and ginning up donations from supporters. ...
Mary Trump’s attorney called Trump’s claim “the latest in a long line of frivolous lawsuits by Donald Trump that target truthful speech and important journalism on issues of public concern. It is doomed to failure like the rest of his baseless efforts to chill freedom of speech and of the press.”