A January 2023 lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward on the basis of alleged copyright violations in Woodward’s audiobook “The Trump Tapes,” which included eight hours of audio from Woodward’s interviews with Trump without his consent.(Still, CNN will host a town hall with Trump on May 10.) A $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN.Trump has been enthusiastic about filing lawsuits against the press in recent years, including: “It is an important precedent reaffirming that the press is protected when it engages in routine news gathering to obtain information of vital importance to the public.” “The New York Times is pleased with the judge’s decision today,” New York Times spokesman Charlie Stadtlander said in a statement for the Times’ own story on the dismissal. “Courts have long recognized that reporters are entitled to engage in legal and ordinary newsgathering activities without fear of tort liability - as these actions are at the very core of protected First Amendment activity,” Reed wrote in his decision, which also ordered Trump to pay legal expenses for the Times and its reporters. Reed of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan decided Trump’s claims of an “insidious plot” involving the Times and his niece Mary Trump to obtain Trump’s tax records lacked merit. That investigation won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 2019. The lawsuit, which was filed in 2021, also included claims against individually named Times reporters Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Buettner, who reported the 2018 investigation on Trump’s taxes. A judge has thrown out former President Donald Trump’s $100 million lawsuit against The New York Times over the disclosure of his tax information, the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative report.

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