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The ruling paves the way for the discovery process, where Trump’s lawyers are seeking the board’s internal deliberations in its 2018 awards to the New York Times and Washington Post for Russia collusion coverage. A Florida circuit court judge has denied the Pulitzer Prize Board’s motion to delay President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against them on presidential immunity grounds, opening the door for the discovery of internal deliberations. Trump sued the board in 2022 for defamation after it refused to retract prizes awarded in 2018 to The New York Times and The Washington Post staffs for their coverage of the...

A Florida Court of Appeals on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Pulitzer board to continue, ruling that the president had met his burden of proof that there was actual malice and bias against him. The defamation lawsuit stems from a Pulitzer board decision to award a prize to The New York Times and The Washington Post for reporting about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The president also claimed he was defamed in a statement from the board, which came after Trump asked them to rescind the 2018 award. Trump filed the initial lawsuit in...