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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,387 posts)
Mon Feb 6, 2023, 08:57 PM Feb 2023

Trump threatens to sue Pulitzer Prize panel after losing defamation suits against news outlets

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"The Pulitzer Board should have long ago rescinded awards given to the Washington Compost (known to some as the Washington Post) & the Failing NY Times for their fake stories on the Russia, Russia, Russia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.

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Trump threatens to sue Pulitzer Prize panel after losing defamation suits against news outlets (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2023 OP
Remember when he said there'd be "so much winning, you'll get sick of winning"? Hekate Feb 2023 #1
Didn't he do that already, in December? Ocelot II Feb 2023 #2
That's what I thought Retrograde Feb 2023 #5
24 months and counting republianmushroom Feb 2023 #3
This wouldn't be another frivolous lawsuit would it? bucolic_frolic Feb 2023 #4
I was looking for Satire! Sanction his Cha Feb 2023 #6
He's still referring to the "failing New York Times" despite the fact onenote Feb 2023 #7
HA HA HA HA ... a slug i just spotteon a weed out side is smarter than Rump Trueblue1968 Feb 2023 #8
It'd be a lot cheaper if he just went outside and yelled at a few clouds. tanyev Feb 2023 #9

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
1. Remember when he said there'd be "so much winning, you'll get sick of winning"?
Mon Feb 6, 2023, 09:00 PM
Feb 2023
So when will he get sick of losing?

onenote

(46,227 posts)
7. He's still referring to the "failing New York Times" despite the fact
Mon Feb 6, 2023, 10:24 PM
Feb 2023

that the NY Times stock price is up 188% from when he took office.

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