Win journalism. The lawsuit by former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) against The New York Times newspaper for its investigations into the former president’s tax returns was dismissed this Thursday by the judge in charge of the case.
Trump filed the lawsuit in 2021, accusing the newspaper of conspiring with his niece to improperly obtain his tax returns for a series of articles published in 2018.
In his decision on Wednesday, state Supreme Court Justice Robert Reed considered that the newspaper’s investigations were clearly protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution, according to The New York Times.
The judge also ordered the former president to pay the legal costs of the defendants.
In addition to the newspaper itself, Trump sued the journalists responsible for investigations into his tax returns.
The former president faces several legal problems in New York, but as a defendant.
On the one hand, there is the case of payments to the porn actress Stormy Daniels, which led a grand jury to indict her for alleged illegal financing.
In addition, the former president is facing in court a lawsuit for rape and defamation of the writer E. Jean Carroll. In this trial, Trump’s defense has announced that he will not present any witnesses and that the former president himself would not attend it. This will therefore go ahead only with the witnesses presented by the prosecution.
Yesterday it was the turn of the psychologist who treated Carroll for years, Leslie Lebowitz, who insisted that Carroll “blame herself for what happened, she felt stupid, (that) made her feel diminished compared to who she had been.” , and asked by a defense attorney whether Carroll presented the facts in a way that could make a profit, she ruled it out completely
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