Trump filed a lawsuit against the board of the Pulitzer Prizes in 2022, demanding that it retract any prizes awarded to reporters from The New York Times and The Washington Post who covered the investigation into Trump’s relationship with Russia in his first term.
Trump refers to the episode and the FBI’s investigation as the “Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax.”
The Pulitzer board issued the following response:
A Statement from the Pulitzer Prize Board
The Pulitzer Prize Board has an established, formal process by which complaints against winning entries are carefullyreviewed. In the last three years, the Pulitzer Board has received inquiries, including from former President Donald Trump, about submissions from The New York Times and The Washington Post on Russian interference in the U.S. election and its connections to the Trump campaign–submissions that jointly won the 2018 National Reporting prize.
These inquiries prompted the Pulitzer Board to commission two independent reviews of the work submitted by those organizations to our National Reporting competition. Bothreviews were conducted by individuals with no connection to the institutions whose work was under examination, nor any connection to each other. The separate reviews converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.
The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes in National Reporting stand.
The case has dragged on. Recently the board of the Pulitzer Prizes announced a new twist. It has asked Trump to provide full records of his medical history, his psychological tests, and his income tax returns since 2015.
Trump might rethink this particular lawsuit. Other groups sued by the litigious Trump should scrutinize the Pulitzer board’s strategy.

Trump has used the courts since the 1970s as a cudgel to spread fear and cause others to cave to his demands in an out of court settlements to get rid of him or drop their court cases against Trump him because they went bankrupt or face bankruptcy from all the legal costs as the Toxic T’s lawyers appeal until they can’t appeal anymore and then file nuisance lawsuits against the Toxic T’s victims to keep them hemorrhaging money to make them suffer.
That is how Trump’s gets his revenge against anyone who dares to confront him for his cheating crimes.
Donald Trump has a documented history of using both personal lawsuits and the powers of government (during his time in office) to target and exert pressure on political opponents, critics, media organizations, and legal adversaries. This pattern has been described by legal experts and political scientists as unprecedented for a U.S. president and a form of “retribution”
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I won’t hold my breath till Trump provides those requested records of his medical history, psychological tests, and tax returns. Great job Pulitzer board!
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He may drop the suit rather than release records.
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