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New York Times Beats the Trump Campaign’s Defamation Suit Over Russia Editorial Adam Klasfeld New York Times won the dismissal of the lawsuit filed by former President Donald Trump’s campaign over the editorial “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo” on Tuesday, with a Manhattan judge finding the column was “nonactionable opinion” and the complaint failed to show actual malice. Published just before the release of the Mueller report—but after former Attorney General ...

Trump campaign loses defamation lawsuit against New York Times over Russia quid pro quo op-ed CNBC 3/10/2021 Dan Mangan A judge dismissed a lawsuit by former President Donald Trumps campaign that accused The New York Times of defaming it with an opinion column arguing there was a "quid pro quo" between the campaign and Russia in 2016. The dismissal Tuesday was with prejudice, meaning that Trumps campaign cannot refile the lawsuit over the op-ed, written by former Times executi...

New York Times won the dismissal of the lawsuit filed by former President Donald Trump’s campaign over the op-ed “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo” on Tuesday, with a Manhattan judge finding the column was “nonactionable opinion” and the complaint failed to show actual malice. “The court made clear today a fundamental point about press freedom: we should not tolerate libel suits that are brought by people in power intending to silence and intimidate those who scrutinize them,” ...

The general counsel of "the new york times" at the time. trump rattled the cage for a bunch of stories i wrote before the book, before i engaged with the book and david had to fend those off, nasty letters, im going to sue you, la, la, la. very similar to the letters he wrote during the presidential campaign. when trump sued me, he strategically avoided suing "the new york times." he sued my book publisher and me because i think he knew i would get drafd favid for free. none the thes they got ac...

Mark geragos. good evening to all of you. tim im going to start by playing what the president secretary sean spicer said today when he was asked about the russia investigation. here it is. >> our job, we are focused on the presidents agenda. going forward all questions on these matters will be referred to outside counsel, marc kasowitz. >> he was referring to the attorney that the president used in the past, in a lawsuit against you, which he lost. tell me about him. >> well, mark had no experie...

I was with the "new york times" at the time. i had "new york times" in-house counsel, david mccraw advising in the backgrounds but then i had three crack attorneys. and they ran circles around marc kasowitz team. i think the issue that raises now is the president has leaned back into his comfort zone and hired somebody who is has never defended someone who is the subject of a congressional investigation and mired in a special counsellors role at the department of justice. and theres a real issue...