The court victories kept coming for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Saturday as a court ruled against the Pulitzer Prize board motion to dismiss his defamation lawsuit.
Trump had sued the Pulitzer Prize Board for propagating "fake news" of the Russia collusion hoax by giving awards to liberal media reporters, but the board's motion to dismiss was rejected by a Florida Circuit Court Judge Robert L. Pegg.
"BREAKING NEWS! Just heard that today, during our amazing Rally in the Great State of Michigan, esteemed Florida Circuit Court Judge, Robert L. Pegg, issued a Powerful Decision totally and completely DENYING the Pulitzer Prize Board's desperate attempt to dismiss my ironclad Defamation Lawsuit against them for awarding the once respected Pulitzer Prizes to Fake News Stories about the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax by The Failing New York Times and The Washington Compost," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Saturday night.
"The Judge specifically stated that the Fake Stories, and the Prizes awarded them, have been debunked by several Government Investigations. He did not allow Pulitzer to hide behind the deeply outdated Times v. Sullivan case, which is from a bygone Era, before the Media went Radical and Woke, as they suffer from a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome…"
Trump continued in an ensuing post, celebrating the Democrats' failed narratives in the complicit media "falling apart like a rotten house of cards."
"The Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Impeachment #1, Impeachment #2, Crooked Joe Biden's civil and criminal Election Interference Witch Hunts against his Political Opponent, and all other attacks on me and our Great MAGA Movement, are falling apart like a rotten House of Cards," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!"
The judge allowing the case to move forward brings the lawsuit to discovery, where Trump lawyers can interview the Pulitzer Prize board and investigate alleged claims the board conducted reviews to confirm the accuracy of the disputed report of Russian collusion reporting that earned the liberal media outlets Pulitzer prizes, Politico reported.
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