Posted on 07/21/2024 11:10:14 AM PDT by CFW
Donald Trump scored a significant court win Saturday as a state judge in Florida turned down attempts by the Pulitzer Prize Board to toss out a libel lawsuit Trump filed in 2022 relating to a series of reports in the New York Times and Washington Post on the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
In a 14-page ruling issued Saturday, Senior Judge Robert Pegg turned down arguments from the prominent journalism awards panel that their decision to bestow the national reporting prize on the staffs of the two newspapers in 2018 amounted to a statement of “pure opinion” rather than fact.
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Trump appears to have zeroed in on the board’s 2022 statement about the reviews it ordered of the earlier prizes because Florida law has a two-year statute of limitations for defamation cases.
In a post on his Trump Social platform on Saturday, Trump’s touted Pegg’s ruling, saying the judge “issued a Powerful Decision totally and completely DENYING the Pulitzer Prize Board’s desperate attempt to dismiss my ironclad Defamation Lawsuit against them for awarding the once respected Pulitzer Prizes to Fake News Stories about the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax by The Failing New York Times and The Washington Compost.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/07/21/fl-circuit-judge-denies-pulitzer-board-dismissal-of-trump-defamation-suit-n3792079
Here is a FR thread on the original lawsuit.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4116185/posts
Anyway, it is just one more thing to add to the Democrat's very bad awful and miserable week.
Alex Jones has entered the chat
Would love to see some of the Dem agitprop outlets take it on the chin.
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