Your Jaw Is Going To Drop When You Hear Who Donald Trump Is Suing Now—It’s A Member Of His Own Family!
October 17, 2021 by Maria Pierides
Nothing about Donald Trump surprises us anymore, so we barely batted an eyelid when we found out that the former president is now taking legal action against a member of his own family. We’re not even kidding! According to reports, Trump has filed a $100 million lawsuit in New York against his niece Mary Trump, as well as The New York Times, over an alleged “breach of contract.”
Mary, 56, is the daughter of the 75-year-old former president’s late older brother, Fred Trump Jr, who died in 1981 at the age of 42. In the lawsuit, Trump claims that his niece shared information relating to his tax returns with three Times reporters – the journalists named as the defendants are Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russ Buettner – who then printed the information, which allegedly breached a previous agreement she had made to keep the records private and confidential.
Trump’s lawsuit claims that “the defendants engaged in an insidious plot” to obtain confidential information that “they exploited for their own benefit and utilized as a means of falsely legitimizing their publicized works.” The three reporters named in the lawsuit actually won a Pulitzer Prize for their 18-month investigation of Trump’s finances that “debunked his claims of self-made wealth and revealed a business empire riddled with tax dodges,” according to the Pulitzer website. The claim then goes on to say that, in prior litigation involving the estate of Fred Trump (Trump’s father and Mary’s grandfather) his niece also obtained “more than 40,000 pages of highly sensitive and confidential documents, including financial documents, accountings, tax records, income tax returns” and more.