Former US President Donald Trump is suing the New York Times and his niece over a report published in 2018. He filed the lawsuit in a New York court seeking $100 million in damages.
The article alleges Trump's "suspected tax fraud." The lawsuit, filed in New York, alleges that Mary Trump and the newspaper's reporter conspired to obtain classified documents. The 56-year-old is alleged to have violated a nondisclosure agreement. In 2020, Mary revealed some of Trump's secrets in a memoir. She was the source of the report. Donald Trump has always denied the allegations in his niece's book. Mary Trump claims that Trump tried unsuccessfully to prevent her book from being published.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses New York Times journalists Susan Craig, David Brattso and Russell Buttner of illegally publishing documents while working with Trump's niece.
In the book that Mary Trump published in 2020, she also highlighted the issue of evasion on her uncle Trump's income tax returns. She said that she had revealed more in her book than what she had told the New York Times.
