President Trump accused The New York Times and four of its reporters of defaming him ahead of the 2024 election, claiming that a series of articles sought to undermine his candidacy and disparage his reputation as a successful businessman.

特朗普总统指控《纽约时报》及其四名记者在2024年大选前对他进行诽谤，称其一系列文章试图破坏他的竞选活动，并诋毁他作为成功商人的声誉。

In a lawsuit filed on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Mr. Trump said the articles and a book published by two of the journalists were “specifically designed to try and damage President Trump’s business, personal and political reputation.”

在周一向美国佛罗里达州中区联邦地区法院提起的诉讼中，特朗普表示这些文章以及两名记者出版的一本书“试图蓄意损害特朗普总统的商业、个人和政治声誉”。

According to the complaint, the articles and the book were published with “actual malice” toward Mr. Trump and caused “enormous” economic losses and damage to his “professional and occupational interests.” The lawsuit asked for damages of at least $15 billion.

诉状指出，这些报道和书籍发表时带有对特朗普的“实际恶意”，造成了“巨大”的经济损失，并损害了他的“职业与从业利益”。诉讼要求至少150亿美元的赔偿。

The defendants named in the suit were The New York Times Company and Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner, Peter Baker and Michael S. Schmidt. The complaint also named Penguin Random House, which published a book about Mr. Trump written by Ms. Craig and Mr. Buettner, as a defendant.

被列为被告的包括《纽约时报》公司以及记者苏珊娜·克雷格、拉斯·比特纳、彼得·贝克和迈克尔·S·施密特。诉状还将企鹅兰登书屋列为被告，该出版社出版了克雷格和比特纳撰写的一本关于特朗普的书。

The complaint claims that the defendants timed the publication of the articles and books “at the height of election season to inflict maximum electoral damage against President Trump.”

诉状称，被告选择在“选举季高峰期”发表文章和书籍，“旨在对特朗普总统造成最大程度的选举损害”。

A spokesman for The Times responded: “This lawsuit has no merit. It lacks any legitimate legal claims and instead is an attempt to stifle and discourage independent reporting. The New York Times will not be deterred by intimidation tactics. We will continue to pursue the facts without fear or favor and stand up for journalists’ First Amendment right to ask questions on behalf of the American people.”

《纽约时报》发言人回应称：“这起诉讼毫无根据。它缺乏任何合法的法律主张，实际上是试图压制和打击独立报道。《纽约时报》不会被恐吓手段吓倒。我们将继续无畏无偏地追寻事实，捍卫记者代表美国人民提问的第一修正案权利。”

A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The Times, said in a note to staff on Tuesday that the lawsuit was “frivolous,” adding that “everyone, regardless of their politics, should be troubled by the growing anti-press campaign led by President Trump and his administration.”

《纽约时报》出版人A·G·苏兹伯格周二在给员工的备忘录中指出，这起诉讼“毫无法律依据”，并称“无论政治立场如何，每个人都应该对特朗普总统及其政府发起的日益加剧的反新闻界运动感到担忧”。

A spokeswoman for Penguin Random House said: “This is a meritless lawsuit. Penguin Random House stands by the book and its authors and will continue to uphold the values of the First Amendment that are fundamental to our role as a book publisher.”

企鹅兰登书屋发言人表示：“这是一起毫无根据的诉讼。企鹅兰登书屋支持该书及其作者，并将继续维护第一修正案的价值观，这是我们作为图书出版商的立身之本。”

The lawsuit against The Times is the latest in a series of legal actions taken by Mr. Trump against news outlets. He sued over the editing of a report on the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” resulting in a $16 million settlement with the network’s parent company, Paramount, in July. Last year, ABC News agreed to settle a defamation suit brought by Mr. Trump for $15 million, plus $1 million for his legal fees, over remarks made in an interview by the anchor George Stephanopoulos.

这起针对《纽约时报》的诉讼是特朗普对新闻机构采取的一系列法律行动中的最新举措。他曾就CBS新闻节目《60分钟》一次报道的编辑问题提起诉讼，最终在7月与该电视台的母公司派拉蒙达成1600万美元的和解。去年， ABC新闻因主播乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯在采访中的言论而同意向特朗普支付1500万美元和解金外加100万美元律师费，以了结诽谤诉讼。

特朗普总统已提起诉讼，指控《纽约时报》及其四名记者对其进行诽谤。

President Trump also sued The Wall Street Journal in July for an article that stated that he had sent a lewd birthday greeting to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.

特朗普还在7月起诉《华尔街日报》，因其一篇文章称他在2003年向声名狼藉的金融家杰弗里·爱泼斯坦发送过不雅生日祝福。

Mr. Trump has threatened to sue The Times on a number of recent occasions, including this month for articles related to the sexually suggestive message and drawing sent to Mr. Epstein that appears to have been signed by him. Mr. Trump has denied that he created the note. The complaint he filed on Monday did not involve any of those articles.

特朗普近期多次威胁要起诉《纽约时报》，包括这个月因该报刊发多篇文章，提及疑似由他签署、发送给爱泼斯坦的带有性暗示的信息和手绘图。特朗普否认撰写过该便条。但周一提交的诉状并未涉及这些报道。

In the lawsuit, Mr. Trump’s lawyers cited three Times articles that he maintained were part of “a pattern of falsehoods and defamation.”

在诉讼中，特朗普的律师列举了《纽约时报》的三篇文章，称其是“虚假和诽谤模式”的一部分。

The first one was an article adapted from the book by Ms. Craig and Mr. Buettner, “Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success.” The article was about how producers of Mr. Trump’s reality television show, “The Apprentice,” helped fuel his rise to the presidency.

第一篇文章选材自克雷格和比特纳所著的《幸运的失败者——唐纳德·特朗普如何挥霍父亲的财富并制造成功假象》(Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success)一书，是关于特朗普的真人秀节目《学徒》(The Apprentice)的制作人如何助推他登上总统宝座的。

The complaint also referred to anecdotes from “Lucky Loser,” and from a book published by the president’s niece, Mary L. Trump, that were included in an article by Mr. Baker from October 2024 about how no major party presidential candidate had been accused of wrongdoing so many times. (A separate lawsuit that Mr. Trump filed against his niece is pending.)

诉状还涉及引用《幸运的失败者》，以及特朗普侄女玛丽·特朗普所著书籍中的轶事，这些内容被用在彼得·贝克2024年10月的一篇文章中，该文称历届主要政党总统候选人从未遭遇如此密集的不当行为指控。（特朗普针对其侄女的另一桩诉讼仍在审理中。）

The lawsuit also pointed to another October article, by Mr. Schmidt, based on interviews with John F. Kelly, the former U.S. Marine general and one of Mr. Trump’s chiefs of staff during his first term. In that article, Mr. Kelly warned that Mr. Trump might rule like a dictator if he were re-elected, and he confirmed a previous report that Mr. Trump had referred to American soldiers who died on the battlefield as “suckers” and “losers.” Mr. Trump has denied making those statements.

诉讼还包括施密特在10月发表的另一篇文章，该文基于对前美国海军陆战队上将、在特朗普第一任期内担任过幕僚长的约翰·凯利的采访。凯利在文章中警告称，如果特朗普再次当选，可能会像独裁者一样统治国家，他还证实了此前关于特朗普将阵亡美军士兵称为“傻瓜”和“失败者”的报道。特朗普否认发表过这些言论。

The complaint also took issue with the endorsement of Kamala Harris by the editorial board of The Times in September 2024, describing it as “deranged” and criticizing the editorial board’s arguments.

诉状还对《纽约时报》社论委员会在2024年9月对贺锦丽的背书提出异议，称其“丧失理智”，并批评社论委员会的论点。

Mr. Trump has sued The Times on a previous occasion, without success.

特朗普此前曾起诉过《纽约时报》，但未获成功。

In 2021, Mr. Trump sued the paper over a series of articles that investigated his finances and tax records. (Ms. Craig and Mr. Buettner were two of the reporters who wrote them.) The suit was dismissed in 2023 and Mr. Trump was ordered to pay The Times’s legal expenses.

2021年，他因该报一系列关于其财务和税务记录的调查报道提起诉讼（克雷格和比特纳是其中两名撰稿记者）。该诉讼于2023年被驳回，特朗普被责令支付《纽约时报》的法律费用。

In addition, in 2020, his re-election campaign sued for libel over an essay in the Opinion section titled “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo.” The lawsuit was dismissed in 2021.

此外，2020年他的连任竞选团队曾就《纽约时报》观点版一篇题为《特朗普与俄罗斯的真实利益交换》(The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo)的文章提起诽谤诉讼，该诉讼于2021年被驳回。

The lawsuit filed on Monday repeatedly took umbrage with Ms. Craig and Mr. Buettner’s book. The complaint said the book tried to tarnish one of Mr. Trump’s “most well-known successes” as a reality television star. According to the lawsuit, the book inaccurately stated that Mark Burnett, the executive producer of “The Apprentice,” had discovered Mr. Trump and transformed him into a celebrity. The lawsuit claims that Mr. Trump was already “a mega-celebrity and an enormous success in business” when he was put on the show.

周一提交的诉讼多次对克雷格和比特纳的书表示不满。诉状称，该书试图抹黑特朗普作为真人秀明星这个“最知名的成功事迹之一”。诉讼称，书中错误地声称《学徒》执行制片人马克·伯内特发现了特朗普并将其捧为名人。诉讼主张，特朗普在出演该节目时已经是“超级名人且在商界取得巨大成功”。

In an effort to prove “malice” against Mr. Trump, the lawsuit cited more than a dozen articles from The Times dating back to his first term in office that it claimed “maliciously and falsely portray him as dishonest, erode public trust in him and tear down his achievements.”

为证明时报对特朗普的“恶意”，诉讼援引了时报自特朗普第一任期以来的十余篇文章，称其“恶意且虚假地将他描绘成不诚实的人，侵蚀公众对他的信任，并贬低他的成就”。

The lawsuit also claims that the defendants “baselessly hate President Trump in a deranged way.”

该诉讼还称被告“以丧失理智的方式毫无根据地仇恨特朗普总统”。

In a social media post on Monday evening, Mr. Trump said he was “proud” to hold The Times responsible for decades of lying about him, his family and business. He referred to the success of his other lawsuits, pointing to the settlements by Paramount and ABC.

特朗普周一晚间在社交媒体发文，表示能让《纽约时报》为数十年来对他及其家人和企业的谎言负责，为此感到“自豪”。他提到其他诉讼的成功，特别指出派拉蒙和ABC的和解案例。

The case has been assigned to Judge Steven D. Merryday, an appointee of former President George H.W. Bush.

此案已交由前总统乔治·H·W·布什任命的法官史蒂文·梅里迪审理。