Trump Campaign Manager Sues The Daily Beast Over Stories On How Much He Earned

The co-manager of President Donald Trump's successful 2024 campaign sued the Daily Beast for defamation Monday over stories regarding how much he was paid for his work.

The lawsuit on behalf of Chris LaCivita said the online publication's stories that he was paid 22 million over two years - later corrected to 19.2 million - "created the false impression that Mr. LaCivita was personally profiting excessively from his work for the campaign and that he was prioritizing personal gain over the campaign's success."

The Daily Beast said it stood by its reporting and said the lawsuit "is meritless and a transparent attempt to intimidate the Beast and silence the independent press."

Celebrity attorney Mark Geragos is representing LaCivita in the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Richmond, Virginia. The filing was first reported by Axios.

The case continues a trend of aggressive action taken against the news media by Trump and those in his orbit. Trump has sued CBS News for 20 billion over editing of a "60 Minutes" interview with his 2024 opponent, Kamala Harris, and sued the Des Moines Register over an Iowa election poll that turned out to be inaccurate. ABC News settled a lawsuit with Trump over its incorrect claim that the president had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll .