Federal Judge THROWS OUT Donald Trump's Defamation Complaint Against The New York Times
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
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Summary
In a four-page court order that is one for the ages, Judge Steven Merryday "struck" for the record Donald Trump's complaint that he filed in his absurd $15 billion defamation suit against The New York Times.
Judge Merryday, appointed to the federal bench by President George H.W. Bush. eviscerates Trump's legal filing, saying it does not comport with the Rules of Civil Procedure. The judge notes: "The reader must endure an allegation of 'the 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.' 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...'"
So, yeah, the judge threw out the blathering, bloviating, nonsensical pleading, and gave Trump's lawyers 28 days to try to do it right, in accordance with the rules of procedure.
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| 1:08.2 | Hey all. Glenn Kirshner here. So friends, a federal judge appointed by President George H.W. Bush just laid down the law to Donald Trump and his lawyers |
| 1:14.2 | for their abuse of the rules of procedure that apply to everyone in federal court. |
| 1:22.6 | Let's start with the new reporting. This from Politico. Headline, Judge tosses Trump's $15 billion |
| 1:31.3 | lawsuit against New York Times. And that article begins. A federal judge threw out President |
| 1:39.1 | Donald Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times, calling it an undignified public relations exercise |
| 1:48.1 | meant to rage against an adversary rather than present a well-reasoned legal case. |
| 1:56.2 | This quote from the judge, as every lawyer knows or is presumed to know, a complaint, that's the document |
| 2:04.9 | you file to commence a lawsuit, a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective. |
| 2:13.2 | U.S. District Judge Stephen Meridae, an appointee of George H.W. Bush, said of Trump's 85-page |
| 2:22.1 | grievance-laden lawsuit. A complaint is not a megaphone for public relations, or a podium for |
| 2:30.7 | a passionate oration at a political rally or the functional equivalent of the |
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