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September 22, 2021 Former US President Donald Trump is suing his niece Mary Trump and the New York Times - as well as three newspaper reporters - for a 2018 report on his financial and fiscal situation, accusing them of being "busy in an insidious plot "to gain access to confidential documents and to act out of" personal revenge ".
Trump's lawsuit, filed with the New York state court, accuses Mary Trump of violating a settlement agreement by revealing tax documents received in the course of a dispute over the ownership of the family patriarch, Fred Trump. The Times and three of its investigative reporters, Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Buettner, are accused of relentlessly seeking Mary Trump as a source of information and persuading her to turn over the documents. The lawsuit alleges that the reporters were aware of the confidentiality agreement.
The three reporters cited are Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Buettner: in 2019 they won the Pulitzer Prize for that report. According to the US media, Trump would ask for compensation of not less than 100 million dollars. Mary Trump, 56-year-old daughter of Donald Trump's brother Fred Trump Junior, confirmed in a book written last year - titled "Too Much and Never Enough - How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man Alive" - that she is the Secret "source" that passed all required financial information to the NYT, including the tax returns of Fred Trump, the tycoon's father.