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Trump hails ruling allowing case against Pulitzer board to proceed
President Trump on Wednesday celebrated a ruling from a judge allowing his lawsuit against the Pulitzer board to proceed.
In a decision on Wednesday, a Florida judge ruled Trump's defamation lawsuit against the body, which awards the annual Pulitzer Prize to leading news organizations, can proceed.
Trump, after he left office following his first term, sued the board in 2022 in connection with Pulitzers that had been awarded for stories about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The president, in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, called the ruling a 'major WIN in our powerful lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board regarding the illegal and defamatory 'Award' of their once highly respected 'Prize,' to fake, malicious stories on the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, by the Failing New York Times and the Washington Compost, the Florida Appellate Court viciously rejected the Defendants' corrupt attempt to halt the case.'
'They were awarded for false reporting, and we can't let that happen in the United States of America,' he continued. 'We are holding the Fake News Media responsible for their LIES to the American People, so we can, together, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!'
Lawyers for the board had asked the judge in January to pause considering the case until after Trump was no longer president.
