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A New York Supreme Court judge has ordered former President Donald Trump to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees to the New York Times. This ruling comes after Trump’s lawsuit against the publication was dismissed.
In his lawsuit, filed in 2021, Trump alleged that the Times, along with three of its reporters (Susanne Craig, David Barstow, and Russell Buettner), and his niece Mary Trump had conspired to obtain his confidential tax records improperly in order to tarnish his reputation.
Alina Habba, Trump’s lawyer, argues that Mary Trump violated a confidentiality agreement signed during the settlement of Fred Trump’s will in 2001 following his death in 1999.
It is claimed that the Times journalists committed tortious interference by persuading Mary Trump to disclose the tax information.
“Donald J. Trump’s public service to this great country aside, it is of paramount importance to note that he is a private citizen who is entitled to the same contractual rights, privileges and protections as any other person,” Habba wrote.
“Yet, the defendants, through their tortious conduct, sought to deprive him of these basic, inherent rights. As a result, the fruits of the defendants’ illicit actions were unjustly and inequitably obtained and Donald J. Trump has suffered significant damages as a direct result of the defendants’ tortious conduct.”
Daily Beast reported at the time:
The lawsuit alleges that the newspaper convinced Mary Trump to “smuggle records out of her attorney’s office and turn them over to the Times” despite a confidentiality agreement she signed in 2001 while settling a legal battle over the will of Frederick Trump, Donald’s father and Mary’s grandfather.
The suit, filed Tuesday in Dutchess County, New York, by attorney Alina Habba, seeks damages “in an amount to be determined at trial, but believed to be no less than One Hundred Million Dollars” from both Mary Trump and the Times.
It follows a suit filed by Charles Harder on behalf of Donald Trump’s brother Robert to try and stop Mary Trump and publisher Simon & Schuster from releasing her memoir, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.
Judge Hal Greenwald ruled in that case that the 2001 confidentiality agreement had been…
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