Posted on 09/25/2021 6:22:10 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Former President Donald Trump filed a $100 million lawsuit against The New York Times and his niece Mary Trump on Tuesday, alleging his confidential tax documents were improperly shared.
The lawsuit, which was filed in the New York Supreme Court, alleged that New York Times reporters Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Buettner pressured Mary Trump to share the former president’s tax documents for an article they were working on in 2018, the Associated Press reported.
“The brazenness of the defendants’ actions cannot be understated,” the lawsuit said. “A group of journalists with The New York Times, in the middle of an extensive crusade to obtain Donald J. Trump’s confidential tax records, relentlessly sought out his niece, Mary L. Trump, and convinced her to smuggle the records out of her attorney’s office and turn them over to The Times.”
Trump’s lawsuit stated that the reporters understood their actions were illegal since they used burner phones to communicate about the story and offered Mary Trump anonymity as a source.
Mary Trump participated in the allegedly illegal sharing of documents because she was “motivated by a personal vendetta,” the lawsuit said. She admitted to being the NYT’s anonymous source in a 2020 book highlighting her relationship with her uncle.
The 2018 NYT story alleged that Trump’s tax records, which the outlet admitted were confidential, showed that he received about $413 million from his father’s fortune beginning when he was a toddler. He also used “dubious tax schemes” to increase the size of his inheritance, according to the NYT report.
The article, which had been published in October 2018, was followed up by several other stories in the following weeks on the former president’s tax records.
Defendant guilty pay the man case closed.
wELL THERE IS ENOUGH TIME TO WIN THIS CASE BEFORE THE NEXT
ELECTION AND HELP FUND THE CAMPAIGN.
I think she had some access due to working out Grandpa Trump’s estate. Trump’s dad, her Grandpa.
Indeed then things get back to reality no more lost in space Biden gigs.
Does the NY Times have the clinton and obama and biden etc tax records? Or report on Hunter Biden bribery and pedophilia photos and videos?
He’d win on appeal anyway
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