TV News LIES

President Trump filed a lawsuit against The New York Times late Monday in Florida, accusing the paper and four of its reporters of defamation and libel. 

The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, listed several stories and a book written by two journalists before the 2024 presidential election, alleging they are part of the “decades-long pattern” by the Gray Lady of “intentional and malicious defamation against” the president. 

“Overall, Defendants used the Book and the Articles to make numerous malicious, defamatory, and disparaging claims about President Trump based on distortion and fabrication,” Trump’s legal team said, according to court documents. “The Book and the Articles recklessly disregard the truth that the President’s fortune was developed through business genius, creativity, perseverance, talent, authenticity and other unique traits.”

“Not, as the Book and the Articles falsely claim, by luck, any semblance of wrongdoing, ‘twisting the rules,’ or reliance on government programs,” the prosecutors added.

Trump announced the lawsuit in a late Monday post on Truth Social, accusing the news outlet of being “one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country, becoming a virtual ‘mouthpiece’ for the Radical Left Democrat Party.”

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Authorities in Utah say two men have been arrested on suspicion of placing an incendiary device under a news media vehicle in Salt Lake City. The bomb didn’t go off.

Police and fire department bomb squads responded on Friday when a suspicious device was found under the vehicle parked near an occupied building.

Investigators determined the bomb “had been lit but failed to function as designed”, according to court records cited by CBS affiliate KUTV.

TFBI identified two suspects and served a search warrant at a home in Magna, west of the city’s downtown. Two men, aged 58 and 31, were arrested and could face charges related to weapons possession and threats of terrorism, ABC affiliate KTVX reported on Sunday.

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On the coastal road heading south from Gaza City, thousands of people have begun an arduous journey to what they hope will be relative safety. Israel has told them to flee as it prepares to take over the city.

It is a dangerous journey through stifling heat and battered landscapes. Those who own a car or can afford a taxi are at an advantage. They cram into beat-up vehicles, some of which are missing windows or windshields.

The cars are piled high with mattresses, suitcases and buckets. But many more people flee the city on foot, taking only what they can carry.

As they walk down the coastal road, some stop to watch the pillars of smoke rising from the city behind them. The booms of Israeli airstrikes are never far away.

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More than 2,000 Hollywood figures, including well-known actors and filmmakers, have pledged to boycott the growing Israeli movie industry in response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The open letter was published online on Tuesday in five languages by Filmmakers for Palestine – which describes itself as "a call by and for filmmakers and cinema workers to stand for an end to genocide, and for a free Palestine." The letter was signed by stars including Emma Stone, Gael Garcia Bernal, Alyssa Milano, Olivia Colman, Brian Cox and Ilana Glazer, among many others. Filmmakers who have signed include Ava DuVernay, Adam McKay and Yorgos Lanthimos.

The signatories are pledging to avoid working with Israeli film institutions that are "implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people."

"Despite operating in Israel's system of apartheid, and therefore benefiting from it, the vast majority of Israeli film production & distribution companies, sales agents, cinemas and other film institutions have never endorsed the full, internationally-recognized rights of the Palestinian people," the website's FAQ page states.

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More than 250 news outlets around the world have signed an appeal that calls for the protection of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, for foreign press to be granted independent access to the territory and for the evacuation of wounded journalists in Gaza needing medical treatment abroad. NPR is among the media outlets that signed.

The appeal, organized by Reporters Without Borders and Avaaz, notes that at least 220 journalists have been killed by the Israeli army in Gaza in under two years of war. Media watchdogs and historians note this marks the deadliest period of war for journalists ever recorded, globally. Palestinians count 247 journalists killed.

Israel's Foreign Ministry called the appeal a "political manifesto against Israel" that it said shows how great global media bias is.

"The reports we see in the global media regarding Gaza do not tell the real story there. They tell the campaign of lies that Hamas spreads," the ministry said in a statement.

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As a prominent Fox News host, Jeanine Pirro – a friend of President Donald Trump and now a top Justice Department official – repeatedly sought to support Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election by claiming widespread voting machine fraud.

Newly filed court documents allege, however, that Pirro later acknowledged during court depositions under oath that she believed no voting machine fraud or failures had occurred and that the 2020 election Trump lost was, in her own words, "fair and free."

The documents were filed Aug. 19 by lawyers for the Smartmatic voting technology company as part of its ongoing $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox that was first filed in February 2021. Pirro was just one of many prominent Fox News on-air personalities who worked to help Trump push his false “Stop the Steal” narrative after his loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

Stomartmatic's lawsuit alleges Pirro and others at Fox News falsely implicated Smartmatic in a made-up conspiracy to steal the election from Trump.

That claim has been debunked by a host of investigations, including the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which said in a November 2020 statement that there was "no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes or was in any way compromised."

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