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Former President Donald Trump sued The New York Times, several of its reporters and his niece Mary L. Trump on Tuesday following a series of bombshell reports about his tax records.

The Daily Beast first reported the court filing in Dutchess County, New York, on Tuesday. The suit alleges the Times worked with Mary Trump to “smuggle records out of her attorney’s office” as part of an “insidious plot” to obtain his private files.

Court records show that Mary Trump, the Times and three of its reporters who worked on the stories are named as defendants: Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russ Buettner (Barstow no longer works at the Times). The three journalists won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2019 for their work probing Trump and his businesses’ long history of using suspect tax schemes to avoid paying millions of dollars to the government.

The suit names Mary Trump in part because she signed a nondisclosure agreement in 2001, although a previous suit related to that document declared the agreement too vague to stop her from writing a book about her uncle.

Trump is seeking damages of no less than $100 million.

The former president broke longstanding precedent during his tenure in the White House by refusing to make public his tax returns and filing many legal challenges to prevent their release. Those returns, however, are closer to being in the hands of Congress and are already with prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney’s office. The DA’s office has spent months investigating potential fraud by Trump and his company, although no charges have been filed.

Mary Trump told the Daily Beast on Tuesday that the suit was an act of “desperation,” using some choice words to declare her uncle was “throwing anything against the wall that will stick.”

“I think he is a fucking loser,” she told the news site. “As is always the case with Donald, he’ll try and change the subject.”

lurker wrote: Wed Sep 22, 2021 9:14 am he always accuses others of doing what he's doing.
note to any attorney considering representing donald: get paid up front.

sig230 wrote: Wed Sep 22, 2021 11:03 am

lurker wrote: Wed Sep 22, 2021 9:14 am he always accuses others of doing what he's doing.
note to any attorney considering representing donald: get paid up front.

And cash, not a check.

YankeeTarheel wrote: Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:05 am Not only will the suit get thrown out of court repeatedly, the moron will be ORDERED to pay the attorneys' fees and court costs of the Times and Mary.

lurker wrote: Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:00 am four goals here for donald, he's "defending his brand", while stallling to postpone the inevitable, and there's a slim chance he can make some money from it. and last, win or lose, he's in the media again. "LOOK AT MEEEE!"
i doubt the NYT is trembling in terror.

Michael Cohen hands Mary Trump the key to making her uncle's $100 million lawsuit blow up in his face

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen laughed at his former boss filing a $100 million lawsuit against his niece Mary Trump and the New York Times, saying one simple legal maneuver will make it disappear like it never happened.

Speaking with host Alex Witt, Cohen said there was about a one in ten chance the lawsuit over releasing Donald Trump's tax information would go forward.

Alternately laughing and handing out legal tips, Cohen said he had some advice for Mary Trump and her attorneys whom he also praised.

"To those people who follow Donald Trump, you might remember that there was a case called Trump versus Timothy O'Brien and the New York Times," he began. "It's eerily reminiscent of what he did many, many years ago. The only difference is that Donald at that point in time sued for $5 billion, right? It's as ridiculous as this lawsuit against Mary Trump for $100 million."

"But what makes this case very difficult than the other case is the fact that it's predicated on a non-disclosure agreement," he continued. "You know, non-disclosure agreements are paid in order to get somebody to do something or not to do something, not to reveal something, and clearly he must have given money to whether it was to Mary Trump, to her father, to somebody for that non-disclosure, but the part that we don't really know is what's written in that non-disclosure."

"But what makes this even more interesting to us as a public, is the fact that, if I was Mary Trump and her lawyer, I would turn and say don't fight this," he elaborated. "Just answer the complaint and look for depositions. Let's look for discovery because one thing for certain -- and I have read dozens of Donald Trump depositions -- they are the dumbest written paper that you've ever seen, nothing makes sense, everything is circular."

"He will -- he does not want to do depositions," he told the MSNBC host. "Right now I'm in a lawsuit against the Trump Organization. I have asked for depositions of Donald and they are adamant that they do not want him to sit for depositions because he doesn't know what he's talking about."