Trump accused a number of media outlets of bias against him and filed multibillion-dollar lawsuits.
The president-elect is intensifying long-standing media hostility by filing lawsuits against the New York Times, CBS and others.
With just two months until Donald Trump returns to the White House, the president-elect is already waging a legal war, filing a flurry of lawsuits against media companies and publishers who have criticized him.
According to The Guardian, just days before the presidential election, Trump's lawyer Edward Andrew Paltzik sent a letter to the New York Times and Penguin Random House demanding $10 billion in damages for articles critical of Trump.
The letter joins a series of lawsuits against other media companies that Trump has accused of political bullying.
The letter accuses the authors of the articles, Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt, Suzanne Craig and Russ Buettner of “false and defamatory…