Trump sued over Truth Social advance access sale

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, notes that Trump’s posts on his own social media site often move financial markets.

“President Donald Trump is charging $100,000 per month for advance access to his official government announcements on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns,” the suit says.

“This scheme is extraordinary, corrupt, and unconstitutional, and Plaintiffs bring this case to stop it.”

The suit was filed by The Intercept Media, a news organization, and by the Freedom of the Press Association, a non-profit group.

Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media, announced in July that it would offer subscribers who paid up to $100,000 each month early access to “market-moving” posts from Trump and other people who use the platform. The service is known as Trump API.

“This scheme is profoundly corrupt,” the suit says. “The President stands to gain financially by giving ‘market-moving’ government information to those who are willing and able to pay his personal company.

During a quarterly earnings conference call on Monday, Trump Media CEO Kevin McGurn said Truth API “provides machine-readable feeds of publicly available Truth posts from the platform’s top accounts in milliseconds.”

“Our customers will get published and publicly available posts fractionally faster,” McGurn said.

McGurn also said during that call that Trump Media to date had signed more than 10 customer agreements for Truth API, “generally in the range of $60,000-$100,000 a month.”

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