Donald Trump got some good news from a Florida judge Wednesday: his lawsuit against the Pulitzer Board may continue, meaning he can carry on his quest to hold them accountable for first issuing prizes to the New York Times and the Washington Post for their fake Russia-Russia-Russia coverage and then doubling down by claiming that there was no false information in any of those outlets’ stories.
No proof of Russian collusion with the 2016 Trump campaign was ever produced, and the Robert Mueller investigation ended with a thud and no charges, yet the Board stood by their decision. They even commissioned a review of the Post and Times’ stories and concluded that “no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.”
Sure, guys, except that those stories all turned out to be wrong. That statement is when Trump saw the opportunity to, as the liberal press would say, "pounce," and he did exactly that in 2022.
Lawyers for the board asked the judge in January to pause the case until after Trump’s presidency was over, but that’s not going to happen now. Trump celebrated on social media:
🚨JUST IN🚨
— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) May 29, 2025
President Trump gives bombshell update in his lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board.
“Now they admit it was a scam, never happened, and their reporting was totally wrong…” pic.twitter.com/2Skr4LrzAS
The post in full:
BREAKING! In 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 won a Pulitzer Prize for totally incorrect reporting about the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax. Now they admit it was a SCAM, never happened, and their reporting was totally wrong, in fact, the exact opposite of the TRUTH. They’ll have to give back their “Award.” They were awarded for false reporting, and we can’t let that happen in the United States of America. We are holding the Fake News Media responsible for their LIES to the American People, so we can, together, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Trump had already scored several significant victories in the case, as RedState reported.
Pulitzer Prize Committee Loses Motion in Trump Defamation Suit, Must Provide Discovery Documents
Breitbart reported on the long back-and-forth between the two sides:
Incredibly, those Pulitzers were awarded for the left-wing outlets’ coverage of the 2016 Russia Collusion Hoax. As we all now know (and some of us knew then), the Times and Post got the story 100-percent wrong.
In 2019, after the Mueller Report exonerated him, Trump said, “If the Pulitzer Prize has become a blatant acknowledgement of false, liberal political propaganda, then the Pulitzer Board should just say so.”
In October of 2021, Trump called on the Pulitzer Board to rescind these Pulitzers due to the Post and Times engaging in “false reporting of a non-existent link between the Kremlin and the Trump Campaign.”
He added that, “Instead of acting with integrity and providing transparency, the Pulitzer Board is running cover for the biggest reporting failure in modern history: the fake Russia Russia Russia collusion hoax.”
Trump asked the Board to rescind the awards, but they of course refused. Now they may have to pay up.
Defamation cases are notoriously hard for public figures to win, but Trump is fighting on several fronts. He is holding CBS News’ feet to the fire over their distorted coverage of former Vice President Kamala Harris’ interview before the election, and the network is offering to settle for big bucks (Trump rejected their $15 million offer in recent days for not being big enough). ABC News also had to fork over $15 million after Trump sued them when anchor George Stephanopoulos falsely alleged that Trump had been "found liable for rape" in the E. Jean Carroll civil case when that was simply not true.
I believe in a free press, but I don’t believe “freedom” gives you permission to lie about public figures and attempt to sway the electorate. They need to rescind those tainted awards and issue a formal apology to the public. Many will say, “That’s never going to happen,” but who would have thought ABC would pony up and that CBS would be begging to do the same?
It’s time the lying mainstream media were held accountable for their copious lies, and Trump is making that happen.
Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie.
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