Donald Trump Blames Nephew, Newspaper $ 100 Million More Than Tax Story

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Donald Trump has filed a $ 100 million lawsuit against his niece Mary Trump and the New York Times.

New York:

Former U.S. president Donald Trump on Tuesday filed a $ 100 million lawsuit against his estranged niece Mary Trump and The New York Times, saying they were working on “an ingenious plot” to get the his tax return for the Pulitzer Prize -winning investigation paper on his finances.

The lawsuit, filed in Dutchess County, New York state, said New York Times reporters Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russ Buettner conducted “an extensive crusade to obtain confidential records of Donald J. Trump’s tax. “

“The defendants engaged in a destructive scheme to obtain confidential and highly sensitive records that they exploited for their own benefit and used as a means of falsely legitimizing their publicized works,” the lawsuit said, which they are said to be “motivated by a personal sale.”

The New York Times and the three journalists won the Pulitzer in 2019 for their investigation into the Trump family’s finances, which the Pulitzer Prize Board said “erased his claims to his own wealth and revealed a business empire that beaten by tax dodges. “

The newspaper story is that Trump has received more than $ 400 million in today’s terms from his father’s real estate empire, mostly here through fraudulent tax schemes.

Mary was the daughter of Trump’s eldest brother Fred Trump Jr., who died in 1981 from complications due to alcoholism.

In his unstoppable 2020 memoir, “Too Much and Not Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” he revealed that he was the primary source for the New York Times investigation.

‘Loser’

Trump’s 27-page lawsuit asserts that New York Times reporters “relentlessly searched for his niece, Mary L. Trump, and convinced her to smuggle the notes from her attorney’s office and give in The Times. “

Times reporter Craig tweeted early Wednesday: “I knocked on Mary Trump’s door. She opened it. I think they called that press.”

The lawsuit alleges that, by providing the information, Mary Trump violated a non-disclosure agreement signed in 2001 after a settlement on the estate of Donald Trump’s father Fred Trump Sr.

The former president is seeking $ 100 million in compensation and damages, as well as all proceeds from his nephew’s book.

In a statement quoted by NBC, Mary Trump called her uncle a “loser.”

“It’s desperate. The walls are closing and he’s throwing anything at the wall that he thinks will stay,” she said.

“As always happens with Donald, he will try and change the subject.”

Trump is under investigation in New York for tax fraud and other alleged misconduct related to the financial activities of his Trump Organization.

The Justice Department in August also ordered the Treasury to provide a congressional committee with a six-year record that Trump has long refused to make public.

U.S. presidents are not required by law to release details of their personal finances, but every U.S. leader since Richard Nixon has done so.

Trump has repeatedly said he will release them while awaiting an audit but has eventually gone along with tradition.

“The Times coverage about Donald Trump’s taxes has helped citizens by thoroughly reporting on a topic of extreme public interest,” Danielle Rhoades Ha, a spokeswoman for the paper, said in a statement. quoted by the US media.

“This lawsuit is an attempt to silence independent news organizations and we plan to vigorously defend against it.”

(Except for the headline, this story was not edited by NDTV staff and was published from a syndicated feed.)

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