The judge shows the defamation of $ 15b of Trump against the New York Times, Penguin Random House

A federal judge has launched the defamation demand of $ 15 billion by President Donald Trump against the New York Times and Penguin Random House, qualifying the complaint “decidedly inadequate and inadmissible.”

The United States District Judge Steven Merryday, the complaint arrived on Friday and gave the president’s lawyers 28 days to refilating his lawsuit.

“A complaint is not a megaphone for public relations or a podium for a passionate prayer in a political rally or the functional equivalent of the corner of the Hyde Park speakers,” Merryday wrote.

In the lawsuit, which has just been submitted on Tuesday, Trump’s lawyers alleged that the Times has become a “leader without falsification apologies,” arguing that a series of articles on Trump, including a Trump report, John Kelly, warned that the president would govern as a dictator, an article on the realization of “learning” and a report and a report on Trump to Trump, who has followed Trump, Libel.

Judge Merryday, in a four -page ruling, said he was throwing the lawsuit because “unequivocally and inexcusably” violates the rules that govern civil demands.

“A complaint is a short, simple and direct statement of enough accusations to create a facially plausible claim of relief and sufficient to allow the formulation of an informed response,” he wrote. “Although lawyers receive an expressive minimum by declaring the claim of a client, the complaint in this action extends far beyond the outer limit of that latitude.”

By throwing the demand because Trump’s complaint was procedurally incorrect, the judge did not evaluate the merits of Trump’s defamation claim, giving his lawyers 28 days to refill it in a “professional and dignified way.”

Merryday, who was appointed by President Geroge Hw Bush, said the complaint contains eighty pages of repetitive claims and praise for President Trump, but does not establish the two charges of defamation alleged. He criticized Trump’s lawyers for forcing him to “work through the” Superfluo “praise about Trump’s program” The Apprentice “, as well as the size of his real estate empire and the” historical fashion “of Trump’s presidential victory in 2024.

“Even assuming that each accusation in the complaint is true … a complaint is still an inappropriate and inadmissible place for the tedious and heavy aggregation of prospective evidence, for the rehearsal of the trend arguments, or for prolonged recitation and the explanation of the legal authority that supports the claim of a lawyer,” the judge wrote. “As each lawyer knows (or is supposed to know), a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective, not a protected platform to enraged an adversary.”

Archive in the Middle District of Florida, the lawsuit appointed the New York Times Peter Baker, Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Michael Schmidt reporters as accused. The lawsuit also appointed the defendant Penguin Random House, the editor of Craig and Buettner’s book “Lucky loser: how Donald Trump wasted his father’s fortune and created the illusion of success.”

“Today, The Times is a full story nozzle of the Democratic Party. The newspaper editorial routine is now a defamation and defamation at an industrial scale against political opponents,” said the demand.

Trump’s lawyers claim that the New York Times and Penguin Random House sought not only to damage the “worldwide reputation of the president and world renown for business success”, but also harmed their possibilities to win the 2024 elections.

A New York Times spokesman said Tuesday that demand had no merit.

“It lacks any legitimate legal claim and, on the other hand, is an attempt to suffocate and discourage independent reports,” said Times spokesman. “The New York Times will not be dissuaded by intimidation tactics. We will continue pursuing the facts without fear or favor and we will defend the right of the first amendment of journalists to ask questions in the name of the US people.”

“This is a demand without merit,” said a spokesman for Penguin Random House. “Penguin Random House supports the book and its authors and will continue to maintain the values ​​of the first amendment that are fundamental for our role as a book editor.”

In July, Trump presented a $ 10 billion of demand Against the Wall Street Journal After the Journal reported that Trump allegedly sent Jeffery Epstein to a very obscene letter in 2003 that it was included in a book Made for the 50th birthday of Epstein, which Trump has denied.

In response to that lawsuit, a spokesman for the owner of Dow Jones magazine said: “We have full confidence in the rigor and precision of our reports, and we will defend vigorously against any demand.”