Trump refiles NY Times defamation suit after original filing struck down

President Trump's legal team has refiled its lawsuit against the New York Times after a federal judge dismissed a previous filing, saying the suit was too long and needed to be whittled down.

As part of its new suit, the president charges that the Times and several of its reporters defamed him, using reckless disregard for the truth as it covered him in the lead-up to the 2024 election.

"These breaches of journalistic ethics are further proven by the Times’ enthusiastic aiding and abetting of the partisan effort to falsely link Russian interference to President Trump’s victory in the 2016 Presidential Election, which is well on its way to becoming one of the most profoundly disturbing criminal political scandals in American history," the suit reads.

The Times has said the suit is "without merit," and its executive editor Joe Kahn said earlier this summer the news outlet has no intention of settling the case.

When the judge threw out the president's first complaint his attorneys in a statement to The Hill vowed to "continue to hold the Fake News accountable through this powerhouse lawsuit against the New York Times, its reporters, and Penguin Random House, in accordance with the judge’s direction on logistics.”

Trump and his allies have taken an increasingly hostile posture toward mainstream news outlets. This week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth cracked down on coverage of the Pentagon, while Trump's FCC chair Brendan Carr has threatened to use the power of his department to scrutinize the broadcast licenses of major networks Trump is often critical of.