Federal judge dismisses Trump’s $15bn defamation lawsuit against NYT | Freedom of the Press News

Complaint not a ‘megaphone for PR’, says Judge Merryday, who deemed long-winded content ‘tedious and burdensome’.

A Florida federal judge has thrown out Donald Trump’s $15bn defamation lawsuit against The New York Times over its length.

United States District Judge Steven Merryday ruled that Trump’s complaint over a book and an article written by Times reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig was…