In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York District Court, Trump's defense team led by The Next Night claims that New York Times reporters persuaded former president's niece Marie Leah Trump, 56, to pass on classified material about family capital, including tax records and more. .
"A cunning conspiracy," as Trump put it, and further claimed that it was done in blatant violation of a confidentiality agreement signed by the niece since 2001 after a family quarrel over the legacy of Fred Trump, the former president's father.
"The amount will be determined at trial," the lawsuit states, "but is no less than one hundred million dollars" for damages.
New York Times reporters David Berstowe, Susan Craig and Russ Buttner published an article in 2018 in which they revealed that the former president received over $ 400 million from his father for several years, in stark contrast to what he claimed for years made his own fortune, but above all, the investigation Claimed that Trump leaves taxes serially.
A year later the reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for the exposure.
Marie Trump, a psychologist and author, last year published her book "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man in the World," a book about the family and character of the 45-year-old president who became a bestseller with over a million copies.
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