A former senior advisor to President Barack Obama slammed President Donald Trump's latest lawsuit during a podcast interview on Tuesday.
Dan Pfeiffer, who worked with Obama from 2013 to 2015, discussed Trump's lawsuit against The New York Times, alleging the newspaper unfairly covered Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. The president is seeking $15 billion in damages, according to the lawsuit.
Pfeiffer discussed the lawsuit with Jon Favreau, co-host of the podcast "Pod Save America," on Tuesday.
"This lawsuit is just a true window into the deep, bottomless hole of insecurity that is Donald Trump," Pfeiffer said.
"You're president of the United States," he continued. "You have made billions of dollars in potentially extralegal crypto schemes over the last couple of months here. You're on top of the world. Your opponents are divided and depressed, and you're concerned about one line in a book written by New York Times authors from a few years ago which claimed that you were discovered by Mark Burnett that it is something that you felt the need to sue them for $15 billion for today in the middle of everything else that's going on in the world."
The New York Times has described the president's lawsuit as "meritless."
"It lacks any legitimate legal claims and instead is an attempt to stifle and discourage independent reporting," the newspaper company told NPR in a statement. "The New York Times will not be deterred by intimidation tactics. We will continue to pursue the facts without fear or favor and stand up for journalists' First Amendment right to ask questions on behalf of the American people."
