President Donald Trump pointed out an important legal victory this week in his continued effort to eliminate the New York Times and the Washington Post of his Pulitzer Awards to report on alleged links between his 2016 and Russia campaign, the coverage he claims was false and defamatory.
An Appeal Court of Florida rejected on Wednesday the Pulitzer Award Board attempt to stop the demand for defamation, erasing the path to proceed.
The Council had argued that allowing the litigation to move forward as Trump holds the post would propose constitutional concerns, but the court dismissed this claim, saying that only the President himself could affirm these privileges.
On Thursday, Trump greeted the development as a turning point in his fight against what he called “false and malicious stories” on alleged links between his 2016 and Russia campaign.
“Breaking! In a significant victory in our powerful demand against the Pulitzer Prize Board on the illegal and defamatory prize” of his highly respected award, false and malicious stories about Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, for the bankruptcy of the New York Times and the Washington compound, the Florida court rejected the accused that the defendants resulted in the defendants who caused the defendants who caused the defendants who caused the defendants who caused the defendants who caused the defendants who caused the accused attempt. For Halt the Case, “Trump wrote the social truth.
“They will have to return their” prize “. They were awarded for fake reports and we cannot let this happen in the United States of America.
The fourth court of appeal to the district in Florida passed a seven -page sentence on Wednesday that denied the council’s motion to maintain the procedures.
The Council had argued that allowing the case to continue while Trump serves as a post could raise constitutional issues, including concerns under the supremacy clause and the Customer Care Clause.
The court flatly rejected this reason, feeling that these privileges are not transferable to Trump’s legal opponents.
“These privileges are only given to the President, not his litigation adversaries,” the court wrote. “Immunities and privileges, by their nature, only for the benefit of the individual for those who are destined.”
“Allowing this case to proceed with the use of the state court of President Trump as a sword and a shield, allowing him to seek remuneration against anyone who chooses the state court while claiming immunity for himself whenever it is convenient,” the Council said in a statement in a statement.
“The Pulitzer Board is evaluating the next steps and will continue our defense of journalism and the rights of the first modification.”
Trump sued the Pulitzer Board in December 2022, accusing him of defaming him when he defended his 2018 decision to award the New York Times and the Washington Post the Pulitzer Award.
The Council praised the points of sale due to its coverage of the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election and the possible connections to the Trump campaign, which reported that Trump has long insisted that he was politically inaccurate and motivated.
The coverage pushed for years of speculation and research, which culminated in the probe of special counselor Robert Mueller, who did not find conclusive collusion evidence between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
Despite this, the Pulitzer Board remained by its decision until 2022, calling the “deeply provided” reports and “relentlessly reported”.
A Florida trial court previously ruled that the public declaration of the council that defended the concession could be described as “actionable mixed opinion”, erasing the way for Trump’s slander claims to advance.
In its last resort, the Council cited Trump’s own use of presidential immunity in cases of unrelated defamation, such as the demand filed by the former contestant “apprentice” Summer Zervos, to argue that he should also be entitled to a stay.
But the appeal judges said that the comparison was defective, and said that Trump is the plaintiff in this case, not the defendant.
“These cases are not substantially similar,” the court wrote. “When an office holder decides to start litigation, the courts must assume that the office holder has already heavy on his official functions.”
The judges also dismissed the idea that the court’s participation would interfere with Trump’s chairmanship, noting that he voluntarily filed the lawsuit and has not invoked any personal immunity to avoid participating.
“If the search for this litigation is of interest or is consistent with the responsibilities of its office, it is exclusively within the respondent’s vision,” the sentence concluded.
The decision allows Trump’s demand to discover, forcing the Pulitzer Board and the media organizations affiliated with converting internal communications related to the controversial award.
Trump’s legal team said he plans to seek depositions and documents that could reveal if the Council ignored doubts about the accuracy of the report he honored.
As the case progresses, Trump has framed the legal battle as part of his broadest campaign against the main media, committing to be responsible for “false news”.
“We are maintaining the false media responsible for their lies in the North -American people,” he wrote about social truth. “So we can do America again!”
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