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A federal judge did not immediately dismiss President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, but will require the president to file an amended complaint in the next month, according to an order signed on Monday.

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In an order signed on Monday, District Court Judge Steven D. Merryday deferred on the Times’ motion to dismiss Trump’s defamation suit against the paper, allowing the president to file an amended complaint by Aug. 27.

Merryday’s order on Monday did not elaborate on why the suit needed to be revised before his ruling on the motion to dismiss, and the order says it will give the Times three weeks to respond to the amended complaint.

Trump celebrated the order as a victory on Monday, insisting in a post on Truth Social the newspaper “failed again in their desperate attempt to have our powerful Defamation Lawsuit against them dropped.”

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