A New York Supreme Court judge on Wednesday dismissed a 2021 lawsuit filed by former Republican President Donald Trump against The New York Times, its reporters, and his estranged niece, Mary Trump.
The $100 million lawsuit alleged that Mary Trump, the New York Times, and its three reporters of having conspired “an insidious plot to obtain confidential and highly-sensitive records.”
The case was filed over the left-wing outlet’s reporting in 2018 about the former president’s tax records.
Trump sued, alleging that journalists with the New York Times “relentlessly sought out” Trump’s niece and “convinced her” to smuggle Trump’s records out of her attorney’s office and “turn them over” to the newspaper….