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Trump Files Defamation Suit Against Pulitzer Prize Board For Rewarding 'Russia Collusion' Co

• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Samantha Flom

Former President Donald Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against members of the Pulitzer Prize Board on Dec. 13 after the board declined to rescind the 2018 National Reporting prizes presented to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their reporting on the debunked allegations of collusion between Trump and Russia.

Noting that those allegations have long since been exposed as false, the complaint—filed in Okeechobee County, Florida—asserts that a "demonstrably false connection was and remains the stated basis" for the awarded coverage.

"A large swath of Americans had a tremendous misunderstanding of the truth at the time the Times' and the Post's propagation of the Russia Collusion Hoax dominated the media," notes the complaint, which was obtained by Fox News. "Remarkably, they were rewarded for lying to the American public."

The Awards

According to the Pulitzer Prize Boardthe 2018 National Reporting Prizes were awarded to The Times and the Post for "deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation's understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect's transition team and his eventual administration."

While such claims of collusion between Trump and Russia—initially sparked by allegations of a secret backchannel between the Trump Organization and the Russia-based Alfa Bank by the now-infamous Steele dossier—have long since been discredited, the Pulitzer Prize Board has defended its decision to reward the two media outlets' reporting on the subject.


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