President Donald Trump’s threatened $1 billion lawsuit against the BBC over an edited broadcast of his January 6, 2021, speech would confront formidable legal obstacles, according to Mark Stephens CBE, a leading international media lawyer. In an exclusive interview with Newsweek, Stephens said Trump’s claim “isn’t the legal hill to die on—it might just as…
President Donald Trump has asked a federal judge to let his defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal move forward, arguing that the newspaper’s coverage of an alleged 2003 letter linking him to Jeffrey Epstein was “deliberate and malicious.” Newsweek contacted attorneys for Trump and the WSJ via email for comment outside of normal office…
A federal appeals court upheld an $83.3 million defamation judgment against Donald Trump in a case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. The judges rejected Trump’s appeal, as his attorneys argued that the verdict was excessive and that he was shielded by presidential immunity. Carroll sued Trump, claiming that he lied about sexually assaulting her…
On Tuesday, I published a column about a toxic app called The Tea that allows women to anonymously defame their dates without recourse. One must apply and prove their identity to get onto the females-only app. Despite being promised my application would be processed in mere “hours,” I spent weeks waiting. Then suddenly, mere hours after dropping…