Legal proceedings initiated by President Donald Trump against the Pulitzer Prize Board have reached a significant milestone with a recent court decision in his favor.
Trump’s defamation lawsuit challenges the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes awarded to the New York Times and the Washington Post over their reporting on false claims of Russia collusion ahead of the 2016 election.
The president has just notched a key win in the case, as Breitbart reports.
Trump persistently criticized the media coverage surrounding the Russia collusion narrative, especially after the Mueller Report was released in 2019.
The report concluded that there was insufficient evidence to charge him.
In 2019, Trump strongly stated that if the Pulitzer Prize was endorsing what he viewed as inaccurate political reporting, the Pulitzer Board should openly acknowledge it.
Despite the findings of the Mueller Report, the Pulitzer Board initially stood by its decision to honor the New York Times and the Washington Post.
In response to this, Trump publicly requested in October 2021 that the Pulitzer Board retract the awards.
Trump characterized the awards as “running cover for the biggest reporting failure in modern history.”
In addition to asking for the revocation of the awards, Trump called on the