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Trump is suing his niece and the New York Times for a revealing investigation into the newspaper

The former president of the USA Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against both Mary Trump’s niece and the New York Times, accusing them of “insidious conspiracy.” with the aim of obtaining his tax documents and publishing a survey in 2018, for which the newspaper was honored with the Pulitzer Prize.

The 27-page lawsuit, in which he estimates the damage suffered at $ 100 million, was filed yesterday, Tuesday in Dates County, New York. The lawsuit alleges that three New York Times reporters – Susan Craig, David Barstow and Russell Beutner – carried out “an extensive crusade to obtain confidential tax documents of Donald J. J.” Trump. “

The appeal also alleges that the defendants were “motivated by a personal vendetta”, “an insidious conspiracy to obtain confidential and very sensitive documents which they exploited solely for their own benefit and used as a means to legitimize the work they published”.

Pulitzer Prize-winning research

The New York Times research, which was honored in 2019 with the Pulitzer Prize, was about how the former contractor, who claims to be completely self-made, actually built his fortune. He asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture, but that his confession had been obtained through torture.

Donald Trump had described the article as “aggressive” and its content “boring” and “already known”.

His publication, however, had led to the launch of an investigation by the tax authorities of the state of New York.

The Justice Department also ordered the Treasury Department in August to file tax returns that the former Republican president had filed six years before coming to power in 2017 and requested a House House committee.

Mary Trump is the main source of research

Mary Trump revealed that she was the main source of research for the New York Times in her 2020 book “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” (“Too Much and Never Enough: How my family created the most dangerous man in the world “).

Her father, Donald Trump’s older brother, Fred Trump Jr., died in 1981 at the age of 42 from a heart attack that his family linked to alcoholism, which he had been suffering from for more than ten years, as he had suffered badly. family pressure to work alongside his father in real estate contracting while he wanted to become a pilot.

Donald Trump’s lawsuit alleges that New York Times reporters “incessantly pursued his niece, Mary L. Trump, and persuaded her to take the documents out of her lawyer’s office and hand them over to the Times.”

“I knocked on Mary Trump’s door. He opened it. “I think this is called journalism,” journalist Susan Craig wrote on Twitter this morning.

The lawsuit also alleges that Mary Trump violated a privacy agreement she signed in 2001 after settling the inheritance of Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump Sr.

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