President Donald Trump's election campaign has filed a multimillion libel lawsuit against The Washington Post, saying the the newspaper knowingly published false articles that Trump was involved in a conspiracy with Russia to affect the U.S. presidential elections, The Hill reported Tuesday.
The lawsuit points to two June 2019 opinion pieces. One stated that then-special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation concluded the Trump campaign "tried to conspire with" a "sweeping and systematic" attack by Russia in 2016.
The second piece said, "who knows what sort of aid Russia and North Korea will give to the Trump campaign, now that he has invited them to offer their assistance?"
The Trump campaign said the Post demonstrated "extreme bias" against Trump and against conservatives in general, and the articles required it to make costly efforts to correct the record.
"The defamatory article has forced, and will force the campaign, to expend funds on corrective advertisements and to otherwise publicize the facts that it did not conspire with Russia in 2016 and is not seeking Russia's or North Korea's help in the 2020 election," the lawsuit reads. "The campaign was damaged in the millions of dollars, the specific amount to be proven at trial."
The Post did not comment on the story to The Hill.
The campaign last week filed a similar lawsuit against The New York Times.
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