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Comedy GOLD! Trump’s NYT Lawsuit Is Absolutely Absurd

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller and Andrew Egger delve into Donald Trump’s latest lawsuit as he seeks $15,000,000,000 (yes, really) from the New York Times.

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0:00.0

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0:26.9

We're talking about one of those, you know, you got to laugh so you don't cry stories

0:31.9

from the Trump era.

0:33.0

The president of these United States has filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York

0:39.3

Times for a grab bag of various grievances and complaints with varying degrees of merit,

0:49.3

from very little merit to exceedingly little merit to insanely little merit. And yeah, I mean, we kind of

0:58.1

just want to go through it. But at the biggest picture, what do you think from the free speech president

1:04.2

here? Yeah, this is kind of an amazing thing. You mentioned the like you laugh so you don't cry

1:10.2

stories. There are a lot of those stories where you get to laugh a laugh so you don't cry stories. There are a lot of

1:11.3

those stories where you get to laugh a little so you don't cry a lot. This is like actually very

1:16.0

funny. I highly recommend everybody. Don't say this very often. Go and read the legal filing because

1:22.1

it's great. And again, you never see this. Even from Trump's lawyers, you never see this because

1:25.7

usually like they're out there trying to win a suit. When you read through this lawsuit, it is pretty clear that even the

1:31.4

lawyers who have written it, no, this lawsuit is not going anywhere. And so really the only end

1:37.9

that they are pursuing with their writing of this legal filing is audience of one stuff. It's to, it's to make Donald Trump

1:45.9

like the filing a lot. And that comes through in every word because it is written like the most

1:52.3

ridiculous just blowing smoke up his butt stuff. You have ever read. Like if you were assigned in

2:00.3

college, like if you're a liberal college student,

2:02.8

you know,

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