Trump wins key victory in Pulitzer board defamation lawsuit

Court hands Trump huge victory in lawsuit over Pulitzer's pile-on to 'Russian collusion' conspiracy theory

President Donald Trump has been handed a huge victory in his lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board, which awarded honors to publications based on their coverage of what turned out to be a made-up conspiracy theory, and then its refusal to rescind them.

The Pulitzer Board had demanded that the case, brought by Trump in 2022 over the panel's stunning awards to the New York Times and Washington Post for their "Russia collusion" stories, which all explained claims that Trump's 2020 campaign colluded with Russia, be dismissed.

That theory, at the time, was supported by no evidence. In fact, it was a political spin created by his opponent during that election, the Democrat party and others.

"Judge Ed Artau notes that numerous entities had squashed the Russia collusion narrative. But the Pulitzer Prize Board, in defiantly issuing a statement refusing to rescind the awards for reporting based more on fantasy than reality, further pushed the assertion of collusion," the report explained.

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