Bangladesh, Sept. 16 -- US President Donald Trump has once again taken his battle against mainstream media into the courtroom. On September 15, Trump announced that he had filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times (NYT), accusing the paper of orchestrating a decades-long campaign of lies, partisan favoritism toward Democrats, and character assassination. The case, filed in Florida, is the latest example of Trumps increasingly aggressive strategy to challenge what he calls the “Fake News Media” and its supposed role in bolstering his political opponents.

In a fiery statement on Truth Social, Trump described the NYT as “one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the history of our country,&...