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In a post to Truth Social this Monday, former President Donald Trump announced that he'll be suing the panel that awarded Pulitzer Prizes to to The New York Times and The Washington Post.
"The Pulitzer Board should have long ago rescinded awards given to the Washington Compost (known to some as the Washington Post) & the Failing NY Times for their fake stories on the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax," Trump wrote. "However, Pulitzer refuses to do the right thing! The Hoax has now been further exposed by the devastating, irrefutable piece in the Columbia Journalism Review, and Pulitzer has no comment. I am suing the Pulitzer Board to set the record straight and continue fighting for TRUTH in America!"
Towards the end of his presidency, Trump sued The Times, The Post, and CNN for running stories alleging that his 2016 campaign "colluded" with Russia. As of this Friday, all those cases have been dismissed.
As Newsweek points out, Trump's Monday Truth Social post was likely sparked by a recent harsh critique in the Columbia Journalism Review that slammed the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting in the two outlets, saying it "wound up being significantly flawed or based on uncorroborated or debunked information."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-threatens-to-sue-pulitzer-prize-panel-after-losing-defamation-suits-against-news-outlets/ar-AA17aSaJ
You might try paying your lawyers before making threats.
Hekate
(100,133 posts)Ocelot II
(131,217 posts)Retrograde
(11,450 posts)It is hard to keep track of all his lawsuits
republianmushroom
(22,692 posts)bucolic_frolic
(55,808 posts)Cha
(320,554 posts)his Treasonous AssFace.
onenote
(46,227 posts)that the NY Times stock price is up 188% from when he took office.
Trueblue1968
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