Former President Donald Trump was ordered Friday to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees to The New York Times and three investigative reporters after he sued them unsuccessfully over a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 story about his family’s wealth and tax practices.
The newspaper and reporters Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Buettner were dismissed from the lawsuit in May. Trump’s claim against his estranged niece, Mary Trump, that she breached a prior settlement agreement by giving tax records to the reporters is still pending.
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The Times’ reporting challenged Donald Trump’s claims of self-made wealth by documenting how his father, Fred Trump, had given him at least $413 million over the decades, including through tax avoidance schemes. Mary Trump identified herself in a book published in 2020 as the source of the documents.
The Times’ story said that Donald Trump and his father avoided gift and inheritance taxes by methods including setting up a sham corporation and undervaluing assets to tax authorities.
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In dismissing the Times and its reporters from the lawsuit, [the judge] wrote that legal news gathering is “at the very core of protected First Amendment activity.”
The TOFF is a fraud and a tax cheater and so was his old man.
I only have one question...
ReplyDeleteHas he ever paid anything ordered?
Eck!
I believe that money in the S&P would've done much better.
ReplyDeleteFWIW
Paris Hilton's Net Worth Is About to Be Even Higher Than Her Parents' (and Not Because She's an Heiress)
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a37416910/paris-hilton-net-worth/
Paraphrasing some of the coverage on the MSM "Voters returning to Trump" ""Voters saying Trump deserves another chance" "Do Americans feel Trump is getting a fair shake? many say no".......
ReplyDeleteSeems like a future without a 2nd Trump administration is too terrible to think about.