Ex-President Donald Trump filed another lawsuit, this time charging The New York Times, three reporters and his niece with smuggling tax records out of an attorney’s office for use in a Times story and a book. Trump claimed the reporters conspired with niece Mary Trump to violate a confidentiality agreement of May 2001. (Daily Beast, September 22, 2021, by Maxwell Tani and Harry Siegel)
Times reporters David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner won a Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for a series of stories on how the Trump family evaded taxes. (The New York Times, September 22, 2021, by Benjamin Weiser)
While a Trump lawyer had earlier claimed that reports of fraud and tax evasion were false and defamatory, Trump did not charge defamation or contest the truth of the Times reports. (Rolling Stone, September 21, 2021, by Tessa Stuart and Patrick Reis)