Publication of tax files | Donald Trump complained to his niece and the New York Times

The 27-page lawsuit, valued at $ 100 million, was filed Tuesday in Duchess County, New York. She made the allegations against three journalists New York Times – Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Butner – for leading the “extensive crusade to obtain secret tax files from Donald J. Trump”.

Defendants allege that they were “instigated by personal revenge”, “used as a fraudulent conspiracy to obtain the secret and highly sensitive documents they exploited for their own benefit and as a means of legalizing their published work”.

Trial of New York Times, Who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2019, talks about how a former promoter who claims to have done so alone has built his fortune. She concludes that Donald Trump actually received from his father for many years, the equivalent of the current $ 413 million, which was partially transferred by the Shell Company, allowing tax evasion.

Donald Trump considered the article “dependent” and described its content as “boring” and “deja vu”.

Its publication, however, led to the opening of an investigation by New York State tax authorities.

“It’s Panic”

Six years before the former Republican president came to power in 2017, the Justice Department ordered the Treasury in August to provide the tax returns demanded by the House of Representatives Committee.

Mary Trump has revealed that this is the main source New York Times, In his book published in 2020 Too much and never enough: How my family created the most dangerous person in the world (Too much and never enough In the French version).

His father, Mr. Trump’s older brother, Fred Trump Jr., died of a heart attack in 1981 at the age of 42. His family had been linked to alcoholism, he suffered from alcoholism for more than ten years, and family pressure pushed him to work with his father on real estate development when he wanted to be a pilot.

Donald Trump claimed that journalists were in the complaint New York Times “Her niece, Mary L. Trump, was ruthlessly chased and persuaded to remove the files from her attorney’s office and hand them over to them. Times .

“I knocked on Mary Trump’s door. She opened it. I think it’s journalism,” journalist Susan Craig tweeted Wednesday morning.

The lawsuit alleges that Mary Trump violated a non-disclosure agreement signed in 2001 after the property of Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump Senior.

Mary Trump described her uncle as a “loser” in a statement quoted by NBC. “It’s panic. The walls are closed and he throws everything he can get his hands on,” she said. “As always with Donald, he tries, and then changes things.”