Trump’s Campaign Manager Resolves Daily Beast Defamation Suit
As part of the settlement, The Daily Beast was not required to apologize or issue any payment to Chris LaCivita, who sued the outlet last year.
Chris LaCivita, a top Trump campaign manager, has settled his libel lawsuit against The Daily Beast.
Mr. LaCivita, a political consultant who was the co-manager of President Trump’s 2024 campaign, had sued The Beast in March 2025 over a series of articles by the freelance journalist Michael Isikoff. Mr. Isikoff had reported that Mr. LaCivita’s consulting firm had been paid $22 million (a figure later corrected to $19.2 million) in two years by Mr. Trump’s campaign through a variety of contracts.
Mr. LaCivita said in his complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, that The Beast’s “defamatory reporting created the false impression that Mr. LaCivita was personally profiting excessively from his work on the campaign and that he was prioritizing personal gain over the campaign’s success.” He argued that the reporting conflicted with Federal Election Commission records.
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