The Pulitzer Prize Board has formally demanded in discovery that former President Donald Trump (and his legal team) produce a “complete and unredacted copy” of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, along with all related documents and communications between Trump, his campaign/transition team, and Mueller’s office.

The Pulitzer Prize Board has formally demanded in discovery that former President Donald Trump (and his legal team) produce a “complete and unredacted copy” of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, along with all related documents and communications between Trump, his campaign/transition team, and Mueller’s office.

This aggressive discovery request—filed Friday in Trump’s ongoing defamation lawsuit against Pulitzer board members in Okeechobee County, Florida—directly challenges Trump’s long-standing claim that the board’s 2020 statement defending The New York Times and Washington Post’s Pulitzer-winning Russia coverage was “defamatory” and damaged his reputation by lending credence to what he calls the “Russia Collusion Hoax.”

Key elements of the board’s demand (per court filings):
– Full, unredacted Mueller Report (including all appendices, footnotes, and underlying evidence).
– All communications between Trump, his team, and Mueller’s office regarding:
– Trump’s records production and written answers to questions.
– Russia’s DNC hack and WikiLeaks publication.
– Trump Tower Moscow project.
– Donald Trump Jr.’s 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians.
– Any denials/editing of Trump Jr.’s statement about that meeting.
– Documents supporting Trump’s Dec. 15, 2025 assertion that filmmaker Rob Reiner was “one of the people behind” the “Russia Hoax.”
– Trump’s tax returns, sources of income, liabilities, health records, and prescription medication history (previously demanded).

The board argues these materials are essential to test whether the 2018 National Reporting prizes were truly “discredited” (as Trump claims) or whether the board’s statement was factually accurate and protected opinion.

### Background on the underlying dispute
In 2020, after independent reviews found no major errors in the prize-winning Russia stories, the Pulitzer Board issued a statement reaffirming the awards:

> “Both reviews were conducted by individuals with no connection to the institutions whose work was under examination… The separate reviews converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes. The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes in National Reporting stand.”

Trump sued in 2022, claiming the statement falsely implied criminal or un-American conduct and damaged his reputation, profession, and business. The board now seeks the full Mueller report (which concluded no conspiracy/coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia but noted “numerous links”) to defend the accuracy of the original reporting and their statement.

### Current status
– Trump has already noticed depositions for several board members (including New Yorker editor David Remnick, former Philadelphia Inquirer editor Gabriel Escobar, and others) in the coming weeks.
– The case remains in early discovery stages in rural Okeechobee County, Florida.
– No trial date has been set.

Trump has repeatedly called the Russia probe a “hoax” and demanded the Pulitzers be rescinded. The board’s discovery push now forces him to either produce the full report or fight hard to keep it under seal—potentially reopening old wounds from the Mueller era.

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