Trump re-files more careful lawsuit against New York Times

President Trump filed a new version of his lawsuit against the New York Times and some of its staff Thursday, toning down the over-the-top language that got his first version tossed from a federal courtroom but still asking for $15 billion in damages for “false malicious and defamatory” coverage.
The slimmed-down lawsuit totals 40 pages, less than half the original 85-page attack on the paper.

Gone are the map of his 2024 Electoral College victory, self-laudatory congratulations about the “greatest personal and political achievement in American history” and mocking of the newspaper’s fall from journalistic mona …