The suit by the Trump campaign is correctly aimed not against opinion but against a false statement of fact contained in the editorial. The case may ultimately be dropped or lose at trial but it will cause considerable heartburn and expense for the NY Times. Trump, who was a good enough baseball player to have potentially tried for the pros, knows the value of a well-done brushback pitch.
“The suit by the Trump campaign is correctly aimed not against opinion but against a false statement of fact contained in the editorial.”
That is how I see it.