Trump campaign team sues New York Times for defamation\

Donald Trump's campaign team sued the New York Times for defamation on Wednesday, 26. The reason was an opinion column published almost a year ago that mentioned an agreement between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the then candidate Republican during the race for victory in the 2016 presidential election.

It is the first time that Trump or his team has sued the press group, regularly criticized by the Republican since the start of his first presidential campaign in 2015.

The organization "Donald J. Trump for President" claims damages for "millions" of dollars, according to the document filed Wednesday before a New York state court.

The US president complains to the justice of an opinion column by Max Frankel, former executive director of the newspaper between 1986 and 1994, entitled “Trump's real quid pro quo with Russia”, referring to the Latin expression that it means consideration.

"There was no need for detailed electoral collusion between the Trump campaign team and the Vladimir Putin oligarchy because they had a global agreement: aid was granted in the campaign against Hillary Clinton under the quo of a new pro-Russian foreign policy," he wrote the journalist in his column on March 27, 2019.

"When it published these comments, the Times knew very well that they were not true," wrote the campaign team in a document signed by their lawyer, Charles Harder, without specifying that the column appeared in the newspaper's opinion section.

"But the Times published it anyway, knowing that they were fake and that they would deceive their own readers," he added.

The decision to publish the column was made "due to the extreme guidance of the Times and its animosity against the Trump campaign team", but also "to influence the presidential election in November 2020," he said.