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BumRushDaShow

(165,821 posts)
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 08:53 PM Dec 15

Pulitzer Prize Board members dump broad discovery demands on Trump for tax returns, psych records, and any prescription

Source: Law & Crime

Dec 15th, 2025, 12:13 pm


Pulitzer Prize Board members filed court documents in Okeechobee County, Florida, on Thursday, containing a litany of broad discovery demands in an attempt to beat back President Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit over Russia probe reporting awards.

The 12-page document was submitted by the law firms of Ballard Spahr and Atherton Galardi Mullen & Reeder on behalf of 20 defendants.

The defendants include: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation president Elizabeth Alexander, The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum, longtime Boston Globe editor Nancy Barnes, former Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger, author and journalist Katherine Boo, Poynter Institute president Neil Brown, former USA Today Editor-in-Chief Nicole Carroll, former Columbia Journalism School dean Steve Coll, New York Times opinion columnist Gail Collins, Vice President and Editor at Large for Standards at the Associated Press John Daniszewski, Editor and Vice President at the Philadelphia Inquirer Gabriel Escobar, UCLA historian and professor Kelly Lytle Hernandez, longtime Pulitzer Prize Deputy Administrator Edward Kliment, New York Times columnist Carlos Lozada, former Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Kevin Merida, Pulitzer Prize Administrator Marjorie Miller, USC professor Viet Thahn Nguyen, CEO and co-founder of The 19th Emily Ramshaw, New Yorker editor David Remnick, and Harvard University philosophy professor Tommie Shelby.

The "first set of requests for production of documents" gives Trump 30 days, as of Dec. 11, to respond and contemplates the plaintiff's attorneys at Weber, Crabb & Wein, P.A., raising privilege claims.


Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/pulitzer-prize-board-members-fight-back-with-wide-ranging-discovery-demands-including-about-trump-finances/



Full headline: Pulitzer Prize Board members dump broad discovery demands on Trump for tax returns, psych records, and 'any' prescription meds history

Link to FILING (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26377795/pulitzer.pdf

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Pulitzer Prize Board members dump broad discovery demands on Trump for tax returns, psych records, and any prescription (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 15 OP
Well played Board members BOSSHOG Dec 15 #1
They all have TDS dweller Dec 15 #2
Does that mean Tiny Dick-tater Snickering? erronis Dec 15 #4
Tony Danza Skivvies dweller Dec 15 #6
Ah, that pesky discovery thingy Brother Buzz Dec 15 #3
While short-fingering a text on how he won a victory. Carried for hours on fux/etc. erronis Dec 15 #5
Word! Brother Buzz Dec 15 #7
Hoping the BBC lawyers follow suit! BlueKota Dec 15 #8
***snort*** tanyev Dec 15 #9
I wonder why they filed in this very rural area county.. Deuxcents Dec 15 #10
I think we know why trump filed the suit in the Florida swamps Hassin Bin Sober Dec 15 #11
I guess it's what we could expect a swamp creature to do. calimary Dec 15 #12
Legal experts say this is a classic "be careful what you wish for" moment. ............ riversedge Dec 16 #13
We're waiting............ wolfie001 Dec 16 #15
Well done, Pulitzer Prize Board members Alice Kramden Dec 16 #14
Why would they have to do this? ScratchCat Dec 16 #16

Brother Buzz

(39,577 posts)
3. Ah, that pesky discovery thingy
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 09:07 PM
Dec 15


My Magic 8 Ball is suggesting the marmalade shartcannon is gonna quietly pull up stakes and slink away from this lawsuit.

riversedge

(79,455 posts)
13. Legal experts say this is a classic "be careful what you wish for" moment. ............
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 07:26 AM
Dec 16

My guess is that Trump will fold. Too many secrets will come out.

Trump's Pulitzer lawsuit just backfired spectacularly, the board is demanding his tax returns, psych records, and meds to prove his "damages," and he's got 30 days to comply or fold like his other media suits.


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BREAKING: Pulitzer Board turns the tables on Trump in defamation lawsuit — demands discovery of ALL his finances and medical records in explosive legal fight.

Donald Trump thought he could bully and intimidate the Pulitzer Prize Board into submission. Instead, the Board just hit back — hard.

According to a new report from Law & Crime, members of the Pulitzer Prize Board are fighting Trump’s lawsuit with sweeping discovery demands that could pry open one of his most closely guarded secrets: his finances. After Trump sued the Board for standing by Pulitzer-winning reporting on his links to Russia — reporting that he despises — the Board is now insisting that if Trump wants to litigate, he’s going to have to play by the rules — and answer uncomfortable questions under oath.

Trump’s lawsuit claims the Board defamed him by refusing to retract awards given to journalists whose reporting detailed his ties to Russia. But the Board isn’t backing down. Instead, its lawyers are demanding broad discovery, including documents and testimony that go directly to Trump’s wealth, business interests, medical history, and credibility — areas that have long proven hazardous terrain for the president.

In court filings, the Board argues that Trump himself made his finances relevant by repeatedly injecting claims about his success, reputation, and damages into the case. In other words: if Trump says the reporting hurt his standing, then the truth about his money matters — a lot.

Legal experts say this is a classic “be careful what you wish for” moment. Trump has spent years attacking journalists, institutions, and independent watchdogs, assuming intimidation would be enough. But discovery cuts both ways. If this case proceeds, Trump could be forced to turn over records he has spent decades concealing and sit for depositions that can’t be spun away with late-night rants on social media.

The Pulitzer Board’s message is unmistakable: they’re not afraid of Trump, and they’re not rewriting history because he doesn’t like it. The awards were granted, the reporting stands, and now Trump may have to answer — in a courtroom, not on Truth Social.

This legal counterpunch also exposes the deeper irony of Trump’s crusade. A man who claims to champion “free speech” is trying to punish journalists for doing their jobs — while crying victim when those journalists, and the institutions that defend them, refuse to cave.

If Trump thought this lawsuit would intimidate the press, it may end up doing the opposite. By opening the door to discovery into his finances and credibility, he’s handed his critics exactly what they’ve been asking for: accountability.

And this time, it won’t be decided by a rally crowd or a rage post — it’ll be decided under oath............



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ScratchCat

(2,688 posts)
16. Why would they have to do this?
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 01:07 PM
Dec 16

Why hasn't the suit already been dismissed on its face? He has no standing to sue them in any way, shape or form for not "retracting" prizes awarded to critics of him. The suit doesn't even make legal sense.

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