The Pulitzer Prize Board is seeking to force President Donald Trump to turn over years of personal records — including tax returns, financial documents, and his full medical and psychological files — in an aggressive discovery demand tied to his ongoing defamation lawsuit against the panel.
The request stems from a lawsuit Trump filed in 2022 after the board refused to rescind the 2018 National Reporting Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their reporting on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Trump has long maintained that the reporting was false and defamatory and that the board’s defense of the prizes further damaged his reputation.
According to Newsweek, attorneys for the Pulitzer Prize Board filed a 12-page discovery request in Okeechobee County, Florida, on Dec. 11, seeking extensive documentation to evaluate Trump’s claims of reputational, emotional, and psychological harm. The filing was submitted by the law firms Ballard Spahr and Atherton Galardi Mullen & Reeder on behalf of 20 board members, described as prominent journalists, academics, and media executives.
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