{"id":142180,"date":"2020-02-27T16:50:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T16:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/trump-campaign-sues-the-new-york-times-over-russia-opinion-article\/"},"modified":"2020-02-27T16:50:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T16:50:34","slug":"trump-campaign-sues-the-new-york-times-over-russia-opinion-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/trump-campaign-sues-the-new-york-times-over-russia-opinion-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Campaign Sues The New York Times Over Russia Opinion Article"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trumps reelection campaign has sued The New York Times for libel, claiming that the newspaper had published \u201cfalse and defamatory statements\u201d about the campaign in an opinion article last year.<\/p>\n

The campaign, Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., filed the libel lawsuit on Wednesday alleging that the newspaper had intentionally published false statements claiming that the campaign had an \u201coverarching deal\u201d with Russia to help the campaign against 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for a pro-Russian foreign policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Times was well aware when it published these statements that they were not true,\u201d the campaigns complaint stated (pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The campaign asserts that the New York Times own reporting had also confirmed the falsity of the statements in the op-ed but published the statements anyway, \u201cknowing them to be false, and knowing it would misinform and mislead its own readers.\u201d It claims that the newspaper published the statement because of its \u201cextreme bias against and animosity toward the campaign\u201d and in an attempt to \u201cimproperly influence the presidential election in November 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2019 op-ed in question, titled \u201cThe real Trump-Russia quid pro quo,\u201d was written by Max Frankel, who was the newspapers executive editor from 1986 to 1994. The article claims that Trumps campaign and Russia had an agreement in order to defeat Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no need for detailed electoral collusion between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putins oligarchy because they had an overarching deal: the quid of help in the campaign against Hillary Clinton for the quo of a new pro-Russian foreign policy, starting with relief from the Obama administrations burdensome economic sanctions,\u201d Frankel wrote in the op-ed. \u201cThe Trumpites knew about the quid and held out the prospect of the quo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former special counsel Robert Mueller, in his investigation into whether the Trump campaign and his associates had colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, was unable to establish any evidence the Trump campaign<\/a> had \u201cconspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The complaint also stated that prior to publishing the opinion piece, the newspaper had already confirmed that Mueller would \u201ceventually conclude\u201d that there was no \u201cdeal\u201d or \u201cquid pro quo\u201d between the campaign and Russia. It also states that the article does not \u201callege or refer to any proof\u201d for its claims of a deal. Instead, the article selectively refers to previous reports about contacts between a Russian lawyer and people connected with the campaign.<\/p>\n

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