Donald Trump is suing Penguin Random House, the New York Times, and NYT reporters and authors of Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig for defamation. Two other NYT reporters, Peter Baker and Michael S. Schmidt, are also named in the suit. Trump argues that three New York Times articles, and the subsequent book, are “malicious, defamatory, and disparaging,” and written “with actual malice, calculated to inflict maximum damage upon President Trump during the height of a presidential election.” It also accuses the newspaper as being “a […]
