Posted on 09/22/2021 9:05:02 AM PDT by bitt
Former President Trump filed a lawsuit against his niece, Mary Trump, as well as The New York Times and three of its reporters, alleging an "insidious plot" to obtain and publish his tax records.
The journalists convinced Mary Trump "to smuggle the records out of her attorney's office and turn them over to The Times," the lawsuit claims.
It seeks an award of at least $100 million, an amount which Trump's lawsuit alleges he sustained in damages as a result of the Times' actions.
Mary Trump revealed in her own book that she had provided documents to the Times.
Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against his niece, Mary Trump, as well as The New York Times and three of its reporters, alleging an "insidious plot" to obtain and publish his tax records.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses those reporters, Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Buettner, of "relentlessly" pursuing Mary Trump in hopes of obtaining confidential records that were exchanged as part of a Trump family legal dispute years earlier.
The journalists convinced Mary Trump "to smuggle the records out of her attorney's office and turn them over to The Times," the lawsuit claims.
The suit was filed in New York Supreme Court in Dutchess County.
"The Times's coverage of Donald Trump's taxes helped inform citizens through meticulous reporting on a subject of overriding public interest," a New York Times spokeswoman said in a statement. "This lawsuit is an attempt
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100%
GOOD FOR HIM
Trump’s next lawsuit might be against the attorneys.
This sums up the lefts attitude toward Trump, and their regard to the established law in general. Anything goes if it hurts Trump. I'm sure they'll find a 'Rat appointed judge that will agree.
.......I’m President Trumps biggest fan on my street (per my own study!) and as such I really hate to see him have to sue his own relatives because I believe deep down this must really bother him. Trump has a big softie inner core.
“The journalists convinced Mary Trump “to smuggle the records out of her attorney’s office “
What were Trump’s records doing in her attorney’s office?
Maybe they used the same attorney firm.
I hope he wins.
She’s said that her attorney gave her permission to take copies.
Theft of client privileged information from an attorney’s office?
Someone is going to be paying some YUGE bucks.
““The Times’s coverage of Donald Trump’s taxes helped inform citizens through meticulous reporting on a subject of overriding public interest,” a New York Times spokeswoman said in a statement.
Really? So, whats the story with the ny times coverage of hunter bidens laptop, for example?
“The New York Times quietly scrubbed the word “unsubstantiated” from its report on the Hunter Biden laptop story after facing intense backlash.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-stealth-edits-hunter-biden-laptop-story-unsubstantiated
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