President Donald Trump escalated his war on the press by suing New York Times Co. over an opinion column that said his 2016 election campaign had agreed with Russia to exchange positive foreign policy for help in defeating his rival, Hillary Clinton.
The Times published a false and defamatory piece in March 2019 that claimed the campaign had an “overarching deal” with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy to swap assistance in the race against Clinton for relief from economic sanctions imposed by Barack Obama’s administration, according to a lawsuit filed by the president’s election campaign in New York state court on Wednesday.
