Judge Steven Merryday considered that the president’s presentation was excessively extensive and with irrelevant arguments.
The president of the United States, Donald Trumpsuffered a new judicial setback in Florida: a federal judge rejected his claim for defamation against The New York Timesin which he claimed U $ S15,000 million in concept of damage.
The magistrate Steven Merrydayfrom the Court of the Middle District of Florida, he considered that the presentation of 85 pages was “excessively extensive” and was plagued with “confusing and rhetorical language” without direct link with the legal claim.
“A demand is not a public relations megaphone or a political campaign podium,” the judge warned in a four -page resolution. Merryday gave Trump a period of 28 days To present a new writing that does not exceed 40 pages.
What was the demand
The judicial action pointed against four Times journalists who, in the months prior to the latest presidential elections, published a book and several critical articles on the business and public life of the president. Among them, notes of Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig About Trump’s role in the television program The Amprentice and their financial links.
From the Times they celebrated the rapid decision. “The ruling recognizes that it was a political document rather than a serious legal statement,” he said Charlie Stadtlandermedium spokesman.
The judge also questioned that in the extensive brief the first defamation position on page 80 was mentioned, while a good part of the text stopped in Trump’s media exhibition and in references to his father, Fred.
The republican’s legal offensive was not limited to the Times. In recent months he also filed demands against ABC Newsthe program 60 minute of CBS and against The Wall Street Journalin addition to the tycoon itself Rupert Murdochafter the publication of a note about their links with the financier and sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Source: Ambito
