President Trump scored yet another legal victory on Wednesday as he continues to hold news organizations accountable for failing to report the truth. The latest win comes in the form of an appellate court in Florida unanimously affirming a trial court order denying the Pulitzer Prize Board's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought forth by the president.
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Judge Ed Artau, in his written concurrence, affirmed that the trial court had jurisdiction over the defendants but also concluded that the statement at the heart of the lawsuit is, in fact, actionable.
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The New York Times and the Washington Post were jointly awarded the Pulitzer for their 2017 coverage of former President Trump and his alleged ties to Russian operatives during the 2016 presidential campaign. In doing so, the Board celebrated the newspapers for their “deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage … of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign … and his eventual administration.”
There were no connections.
Still, the Pulitzer Prize Board issued a statement in 2022 insisting that none of the articles used as the basis for the awards “were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.”
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Trump's lawsuit countered that assertion, noting explicitly how the Washington Post had “retracted statements from several articles from 2017 relating to the Steele Dossier and other alleged connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.”
Indeed, the Post quietly edited two major articles that relied on the discredited Steele dossier and added editor’s notes to at least 14 other reports.
http://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/02/13/trump-scores-legal-victory-in-lawsuit-against-pulitzer-prize-board-and-those-who-traffic-in-fake-news-n2185529
The president recently secured a settlement in his lawsuit against ABC News. Additionally, a jury found CNN liable for defamation and acting with malice in relation to a false news report.
In a separate legal action, the producers of "60 Minutes" handed over interview transcripts with Kamala Harris to the FCC, stemming from another of Trump's lawsuits concerning alleged election interference.
Media outlets are finally being held accountable for their reporting. Legal actions and settlements underscore a new era of scrutiny and responsibility in journalism.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good ...
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