Trump's defamation case to revoke NYT, WaPo Pulitzers can proceed, court rules

President Trump is celebrating a court's decision to move forward with a defamation case he has against the Pulitzer Prize board

The case enters around The New York Times and Washington Post award-winning coverage of what was dubbed Russiagate during Trump's first term about Trump's 2016 campaign and allegations of Russia collusion, which there was no evidence of and later dubbed the Russia hoax by conservatives

Trump says the outlet's reporting was false and defamatory and wants its Pulitzer Prizes revoked by the prize board

The board asked the Florida appellate court to pause the defamation lawsuit while Trump is president, claiming it raised constitutional concerns

But the court ruled the case can continue. Trump celebrated the court's ruling, calling it a major win and saying 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. Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize board back in 2022, saying the board defamed him when

it defended its 2018 Pulitzer Awards to The Times and The Post. The outlets wrote about alleged

Russian interference in the 2016 election and alleged ties to the Trump campaign Here are some of the headlines that contributed to the outlet Pulitzers the fake Americans Russia created to influence the election and Trump

revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador. The coverage led to federal investigations, which ultimately found no evidence of collusion

The Pulitzer board said of its awards that the news outlets had deeply sourced information and it was relentlessly reported in the public interest in a way that deserved recognition

In a press release just months prior to Trump's lawsuit, the board wrote it conducted a review that found no passages or headlines were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the prizes

The Pulitzer Prizes in national reporting stand. The board argued to the court the case should be put on pause because of a constitutional conflict since Trump has been reelected president, citing concerns under the Supremacy Clause

But in a seven-page ruling, the court wrote, Such privileges are afforded to the president alone, not to his litigation adversaries

Ruling the case can move forward. We'll continue to follow this story, and you can too, by downloading the Straight Arrow News mobile app or visiting san.com