President Trump sues The Washington Post for defamation, taking aim at opinion essays
President Donald Trump has fulfilled his threat to sue more media outlets for defamation. His target this time: The Washington Post.
Trump threatens more lawsuits against media outlets that express opinions he doesn’t like pic.twitter.com/7aq53B1CzHOn Tuesday, Trump’s reelection campaign slapped The Washington Post with a similar lawsuit. In the first, opinion writer Greg Sargent said Trump had “tried to conspire with” a “sweeping and systematic” attack by Russia in 2016; in the second, writer Paul Waldman questioned whether Russia and North Korea would help Trump get elected this year.
Story continuesKristine Coratti Kelly, the Post’s vice president of communications, told The Associated Press that it was “disappointing to see the president’s campaign committee resorting to these types of tactics, and we will vigorously defend this case.”
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