Former President Donald Trump has lost in a legal case he brought challenging The New York Times and several reporters associated with the publication in connection to past reporting from the paper on tax records of his. Details on the new developments were shared by The Daily Beast.
Notably, many details of Trump’s taxes were subsequently publicized by the Democratic majority on the House Ways and Means Committee (under established legal precedents rather than the insidious and ostensibly illegal leaks about which Trump likes to complain) as the last Congress drew to a close. That panel also operated under established legal frameworks for seeking the records from authorities elsewhere in the government, although Trump predictably tried, without success, to thwart that process. Among what they helped spotlight was that Trump paid $0 in personal income taxes in 2020 and claimed sometimes astronomical losses.
In the case challenging the Times, in which Trump also targeted his niece, Mary, who was a source for the paper, Trump made legal claims evidently including tortious interference, unjust enrichment, and negligent supervision, failing across the board. The definitions of those allegations would include contentions of interference with Trump’s contractual or business ties. New York Supreme Court Justice Robert R. Reed, who ruled on Trump’s claims against the Times and its reporters, found the challenged actions to involve areas of activity protected by the Constitution’s First Amendment. (Name aside, the “Supreme Court” in New York is, unlike elsewhere, not its highest court.) Trump’s challenge to Mary Trump’s role in what took place around that earlier release of financial details of his remains active. Read more at this link.
