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.
Using their own tactics against them
Should have made it $1 billion.
He could end up owning the place.
They knew such records are private, they knew they were obtained illegally, they should’ve known better than to use them.
And there’s no other reason to use them except to personally harm Trump.
How about the lawsuit agains the Hillary campaign for the Sussman thingy?
Don’t get hopes up. This is the NY Supreme Court. Nuff said
I’m a little surprised that Trump hired an attorney who used “understated” when it really should have been “overstated”…
They should have known better than to start such a quest in the first place.
By letter of the law this is an open and shut case…the times obtained tax information they knew was illegal since Donald never signed off on the releasing of his public tax returns and published them anyway…but it is New York
“He could end up owning the place.”
100 million is enough to own them. I believe in a lawsuit like this awards are tripled. I don’t think the Ewwww Yuck Slime is worth $300,000,000.
In my limited experience, it is associates who draft and edit most of these filings, according to outlines provided by the top attorneys who will handle the litigation.
Hope Carlos Slim has to turn over the keys.
Good idea !
Mary Trump is a scumbag.
Having been one of those young associates, you are correct. And the laziness of the partner who signed it without reading it will hopefully be noted as well.
How did Mary get ahold of Trumps Tax returns?
Who gave them to Mary?
...and yes, she gives trailer trash a bad name.
No good businessman would want to own a failure of a business like the NY Times. Just take all their cash and watch them crumble away.
Mary Trump is leftist doo-doo. Her main goal in life is to trash and attack her uncle. A vicious lil POC leftard. No shortage of her type.
Her type get approval , attention,and money from other people jealous of decent successful people.
She is an ignorant greedy lazy tool.
And it is Donald Trump.
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