Real estate mogul and television personality Donald Trump has sued Warner Books and New York Times reporter Timothy O’Brien for $5 billion, saying O’Brien’s new book about Trump maliciously portrays him as being worth no more than $250 million when the accurate figure would be upwards of $2 billion. (Claudia Parsons, Reuters/Washington Post, Jan. 24; Greg Levine, “Trump Sues Over Bio Book; Launches Travel Web Site”, Forbes, Jan. 24; Gina Serpe, “Trump’s Billion-Dollar Defaming Claim”, EOnline, Jan. 24).
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5 BILLION?!? Um, wow.
He himself only claims to be worth $2 billion, so how in the world could he claim that the book did $2.5 billion in damage?
I think the claim is largely symbolic, Trump doesn’t need the money after all.
And he likely expects not to get the amount claimed anyway, and 10% of the claim would be what the author says he’s worth…
Pity we can’t cut that out and get in our time machine and present it at bankruptcy court–either of the two times he has used it.