President Trump’s niece Mary Trump has just received some bad news.
A New York judge has ruled President Trump “can advance with a breach-of-contract claim against his niece.”
Trump’s lawsuit against his niece stems from his niece Mary Trump secretly going to the New York Times in 2018 to give them a scoop about Trump’s taxes.
Trump’s legal team has moved to file the lawsuit because Mary Trump’s action violated a previous 2001 confidentiality settlement.
NEW: A New York judge denied Mary Trump’s motion the dismiss the lawsuit filed against her by her uncle Donald Trump over her role in a 2018 New York Times story on his taxes https://t.co/h2pH6IpFup
— Erik Larson (@eelarson) June 10, 2023
Here’s what Yahoo News reported:
Donald Trump can proceed with a lawsuit against his niece Mary Trump for providing information to the New York Times for its 2018 report on his taxes, a judge ruled.
New York state court Justice Robert Reed on Friday rejected Mary Trump’s argument that the former president’s lawsuit violated a state law against frivolous litigation “aimed at chilling freedom of speech and the press.”
The ruling is a modest procedural victory for Trump on an otherwise rough day in which he became the first-ever ex-president indicted for federal crimes.
Reed earlier dismissed Trump’s claims against the New York Times and ordered the former president to pay the newspaper’s legal fees and costs, saying the award-winning story was protected by the First Amendment.
Donald Trump claims that, by acting as a source for the newspaper, Mary Trump violated confidentiality provisions of a 2001 settlement that resolved an estate dispute over the family property business.
In Friday’s ruling, Reed said Trump can advance with a breach-of-contract claim against his niece, while dismissing allegations of unjust enrichment and bad-faith conduct.
The ruling is “no surprise” because Mary Trump violated the 2001 settlement agreement with her uncle even after benefiting from it financially, Trump’s attorney Alina Habba said in a statement.
Here was Mary Trump in February talking bad about her uncle:
“Donald will use any opportunity to incite more violence if he thinks it suits him.” Mary Trump shares her predictions about whether Trump will be indicted and how his base could respond. https://t.co/m2b34xnk9a pic.twitter.com/xZbIDjfFDd
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 19, 2023
Per Business Insider:
President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against his niece Mary Trump can proceed, a judge has ruled, according to Bloomberg.
The former president claims that when his niece provided information to The New York Times for its 2018 report on his taxes, she violated confidentiality provisions of a 2001 settlement related to the family property business.
On Friday, New York state court Justice Robert Reed rejected Mary Trump’s argument that her uncle’s lawsuit violated a state law against frivolous legal suits “aimed at chilling freedom of speech and the press,” Bloomberg reported.
The decision was described as a “modest procedural victory” by Bloomberg.
The ruling came the same day that Trump was indicted for the second time, this time on 37 charges linked to Trump taking government records to Mar-a-Lago.
Donald Trump can proceed with a lawsuit against his niece, Mary, over her role in a New York Times story on his taxes, judge rules https://t.co/feKtHbQiRM
— Insider Politics (@insiderpolitics) June 10, 2023
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