Posted on 09/19/2025 11:01:55 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against The New York Times has been tossed, for now.
Calling the president's 85-page lawsuit "decidedly improper and impermissible," a federal judge in Tampa threw it out on Friday and gave him 28 days to file a new complaint that had to be under 40 pages.
U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday blasted the Trump suit for alleging only two acts of defamation, yet "Count I appears on page eighty, and Count II appears on page eighty-three." He also criticized the suit's flowery descriptions about Trump and overly political language, writing a complaint is not a "public forum for vituperation and invective" or a "megaphone for public relations or a podium for a passionate oration at a political rally," saying its length violated rules of civil procedure that dictate complaints contain a "short and plain statement" of the claim seeking relief.
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I had no idea the limit was 40 pages.
Learn something every day...
Oof
“Equal Justice” as applied by the learning disabled state judiciary.
I wonder and hoping I am not pushing an overly unpopular opinion, if it is better to simply keep on showing that rag as simply a dishonest propaganda outlet and this has been the case for almost all of its existence and that it has no credibility.
No problem ,LOL
I could write the lawsuit for him and save a lot of reading.
I, Donald J Trump, do hereby file a lawsuit against the NYT because everyone there is a complete lying sack of schlitz.
Let’s roll.
“... writing a complaint is not a “public forum for vituperation and invective” or a “megaphone for public relations or a podium for a passionate oration at a political rally...”
Could’a fooled me.....................
“Short and plain statement of the claim...”
"In the withering ruling tossing the suit, Judge Merryday castigated Trump's legal team for making readers "labor through" flowery phrases like accusing the Times of a "desperate need to defame with a partisan spear rather than report with an authentic looking glass" and an allegation that "the false narrative about ‘The Apprentice’ was just the tip of Defendants’ melting iceberg of falsehoods."
"He also took exception to the line about "The Apprentice" representing "the cultural magnitude of President Trump’s singular brilliance, which captured the zeitgeist of our time."
Merryday is a Bush appointee, by the way
Steven D. Merryday is a Grabby Poppy stooge.
Bushie POS.
The Fascist American-hating judiciary sticks it to the U.S. President again. We need to defund and abolish those skanks and slunks.
U.S. District Court judge, not a state judge. Appointed by GHW Bush.
Complaint: 10 pages.
Exhibits: 100 pages.
Problem solved.
Ooooh, I like that.
“Chat GPT, make this 50% shorter...”
The filing’s primary audience was Trump himself. Obviously, it was never going to be taken seriously by a court of law.
It’s a Bush stooge.
This suit is going nowhere.
The hurdle against defamation charges is insanely high for public figures, especially politicians.
In the lawsuit, 90% of the verbiage is completely bonkers, not having any material connection with the claim.
Said the judge:
Similarly, 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.”
Weird.
TLDR version
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