Largely going under the radar for the last few years was President Trump’s defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board for awarding The New York Times and The Washington Post for their reporting promoting the Russian Collusion Hoax. But on February 12, Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeals affirmed the 19th Judicial Circuit’s ruling that Trump did have standing in the state and that the case could proceed.
In the order obtained by NewsBusters, Justice Jeffrey Kuntz wrote, with Justices Burton Conner and Ed Artau concurring, that the lower court was correct to apply “Florida’s long arm statue and the Due Process Clause” and that Trump “sufficiently pled that the defendants engaged in a conspiracy to defame him”:
The circuit court concluded that the exercise of personal jurisdiction over the eighteen defendants was proper. We agree….
