The 2024 presidential hopeful filed a complaint on Tuesday in state court in Okeechobee County, Florida and requested more than $30,000 in damages as compensation for the Board’s award of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize to the New York Times and the Washington Post for their coverage of Trump’s campaign, the Steele Dossier, and the Mueller investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 election.Trump asserts that the Pulitzer Prize is the “pinnacle of American journalistic achievement” that is bestowed on only the most “well-deserving journalists,” and that its award “carries very important connotations.” It is precisely these “connotations” that make up the heart of Trump’s lawsuit against the Board.By doing so, he contends, the Pulitzer Prize Board “signaled… it was acknowledging the Russia Collusion Hoax as the biggest story of 2017.” Trump argues unequivocally: “there was no connection between the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team, or the Trump administration, with any Russian attempts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.” (emphasis Trump’s).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."