Sue Everybody
2012
2012-01-01 The Trump Organization filed a lawsuit against the Scottish government for approving the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, calling it a “monstrous” blight on the coast. The case was lost in 2015, and Trump was ordered to pay the Scottish government’s legal costs.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-47400641
2019
2019-10-18 Trump sued CNN for perceived bias about Russian role in the 2016 election.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/trump-legal-action-cnn-biased-reporting
2020
2020-02-27 Trump sued the New York Times for defamation in an opinion piece.
https://thewire.in/world/donald-trump-campaign-sues-new-york-times-over-russia-op-ed
2020-11-16 Trump sued the Wisconsin TV Station over a political advertisement created by a liberal super PAC.
https://firstamendmentwatch.org/trump-settles-defamation-lawsuit-against-wisconsin-tv-station/
https://www.wpr.org/media/trump-campaign-lawsuit-against-northwoods-tv-station-dismissed
2021
2021-07-07 Trump sued Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook for banning him on their platforms.
2021-09-21 Trump sued his niece and The New York Times for releasing his tax documents.
2022
2022-03-24 Trump sued Hillary Clinton and the DNC over Russia claims.
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/24/1088694473/trump-lawsuit-clinton-democrats-russia
2022-10-04 Trump sued CNN for defamation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-sues-cnn-for-defamation/
2023
2023-01-30 Trump sued the publisher of Simon & Schuster and Paramount Global for selling an audiobook containing tapes of Trump interviews.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/30/trump-sues-bob-woodward-simon-schuster-paramount-for-50-million.html
2023-04-12 Trump sued Michael Cohen over alleged attorney-client relationship violations but then later dropped the charges around October. FYI Michael Cohen testified before a Manhattan Grand Jury in the Trump hush-money trial.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-cohen-testifies-trump-grand-jury-2nd-day-manhattan-trump-probe/
2023-05-22 Trump sued the Washington Post for defamation.
2023-06-27 Trump sued E Jean Carroll for defamation.
2024
2024-10-31 Trump sued CBS and 60 Minutes, accusing them of maliciously and deceptively altering an interview with Kamala Harris.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-sues-cbs-news-harris-60-minutes-1978335
2024-12-16 Trump sued ABC $15M for defamation - ABC paid out.
2025 June
2025-06-02 Paramount Global paid Trump $16M to settle a lawsuit.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w4n8778q2o
2025 July
2025-07-02 Senator Warren called for an investigation into the $16M Paramount settlement with Trump, calling the settlement “meritless”.
2025-07-28 Trump filed a $10B lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal for reporting on the Epstein files.
2025-07-29 Trump sued the Wall Street Journal for $10B for defamation.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/29/nx-s1-5482955/trump-epstein-murdoch-deposition-lawsuit
2025 September
2025-09-16 Trump sued The New York Times for libel over the Epstein letter and simultaneously accused them of endorsing Kamala Harris.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/media/trump-lawsuit-new-york-times-hnk
2025-09-29 YouTube agreed to pay Trump $24.5M to settle a lawsuit involving suspension of Trump’s account following the J6 insurrection.
2025-09-29 Trump tweeted out celebration for the YouTube settlement, adding “Repost if ALL banned conservatives should be paid!”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115291190758865206
2025 October
2025-10-17 Trump refiled a $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times for $15B.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-refiles-15b-defamation-lawsuit-new-york-rcna238170
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/business/media/trump-lawsuit-new-york-times.html
2025-10-22 Trump demanded to go forward with his lawsuit against the DOJ, forcing taxpayers to pay up the $230M lawsuit.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/politics/trump-doj-request-230-mil-explained
2025 November
2025-11-09 Trump threatened to sue the BBC for $1B over an edit of his January 6th remarks, accusing the BBC of giving the wrong impression that Trump called for violence. Both Director General Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness quit, which Trump posted on social media about later.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115521695808009888
2025 December
2025-12-12 Trump’s DOJ sued 18 states to force States to hand over voter registration data.
2026 January
2026-01-12 After a 13-minute interview with CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil, leaked audio of Karoline Leavitt recorded her saying to CBS news after an interview, “He said, ‘Make sure you guys don’t cut the tape, make sure the interview is out in full.’ He said if it’s not out in full we’ll sue your ass off”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdYqrbZt6FM&list=WL&index=1
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/18/white-house-press-secretary-cbs-trump-interview
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/business/media/cbs-news-trump-interview.html
2026-01-29 Trump sued the IRS and Treasury for $10B for leaked tax information.
2026 February
2026-02-02 Trump threatened to sue Harvard for $1B.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/03/trump-escalates-harvard-feud-with-1-billion-demand-00761683
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkryely657o
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116004776659519984
2026-02-17 Trump appointed Michael Selig as the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) chair. While one of the CFTC’s tasks is to regulate prediction markets, the chair is an avid supporter of both Trump and prediction markets. He even threatened States for suing prediction markets by posting a video. In that video he said, “To those who seek to challenge our authority in this space let me be clear – we will see you in court”. That video was posted in February 2026.
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9164-25
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/12/michael-selig-prediction-markets-00865239
https://x.com/ChairmanSelig/status/2023744656647786604
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/see-court-cftc-chair-defends-150757162.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/cftc-selig-prediction-markets-nevada-rcna259352
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-02-17/cftc-chair-sides-with-prediction-markets-video
2026 April
2026-04-13 A judge dismissed Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal which targeted the outlet’s reporting that he contributed a letter to Epstein for his birthday.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/13/trump-epstein-murdoch-wsj-lawsuit-dismissed.html
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/13/media/trump-wsj-lawsuit-epstein-dismissed-judge
2026-04-17 Multiple top officials described Kash Patel as erratic, intoxicated on the job, unexplainably absent from work, and paranoid. One official told The Atlantic that he was glad Patel focused on bullshit for the sake of law but felt that means the FBI doesn’t have a functioning director. Kash Patel has threatened to sue The Atlantic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpOD12q81cY&list=WL&index=9&t=157s
SUB WALL https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/
2026-04-21 Kash Patel filed his $250M defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic for reporting on his erratic behavior and unexplained absences. For example, they reported that Patel’s security detail struggled to wake him on multiple occasions last year and in at least one instance requested breaching equipment normally used by SWAT teams to enter buildings.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/media/kash-patel-fbi-atlantic-lawsuit-sarah-fitzpatrick
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/20/kash-patel-lawsuit-the-atlantic
2026-04-22 Todd Blanche and the DOJ indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on federal charges for allegedly “manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred”.
https://www.rev.com/transcripts/doj-announces-splc-indictment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPEkfzfWTeE&list=WL&index=6&t=57s
GOOD COMMENTARY VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOpAb5iIvCw&list=WL&index=2&t=114s
2026 May
2026-05-16 Trump reportedly dropped his $10B lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for a taxpayer-funded $1.7B anti-weaponization fund (slush fund) to compensate allies of Trump who claimed they were targeted under the Biden administration. Recipients could include anyone charged in the J6 insurrection.
https://time.com/article/2026/05/16/trump-irs-lawsuit-weaponization-fund/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/16/trump-irs-lawsuit-compensation-fund
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/17/politics/irs-doj-trump-fund-billion
2026-05-19 As part of Trump’s IRS settlement, the DOJ agreed to drop any pending tax claims against Trump and his family, barring any investigations.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/g-s1-122938/irs-trump-settlement-tax-returns-audit
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/19/politics/irs-barred-investigating-trump-new-settlement-term
2026-05-19 Trump sued Minnesota for banning Kalshi prediction markets.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5821265/minnesota-ban-prediction-markets
[https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story//id/48818821/trump-sues-minnesota-block-law-banning-prediction-markets](https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story//id/48818821/trump-sues-minnesota-block-law-banning-prediction-markets)
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/options/articles/us-regulator-sues-block-minnesotas-234641314.html
2026-05-20 (CONTEXT - FOLLOW UP ON SLUSH FUND) Two officers filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s $1.8B “anti-weaponization” fund to reward J6 insurrectionists for their attack on the Capitol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rm_2tYr8HE&list=WL&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EPDnUEagYo&list=WL&index=1
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/21/g-s1-123293/officers-who-defended-capitol-sue
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/20/trump-weaponization-fund-lawsuit-jan-6-00929342