Mary Trump Sues President and Family, Claiming Fraud of Millions

[demmiblue]

Source: NYT

In her best-selling memoir, Mary L. Trump, President Trump’s niece, told a family story that detailed the ways in which she claims her relatives — the president among them — tricked, bullied and ultimately cheated her out of an inheritance worth tens of millions of dollars.

On Thursday, more than two months after the book was published and a little more than one month before the election, Ms. Trump told her story again — this time in a lawsuit.

The suit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, accused Mr. Trump, his sister Maryanne and their brother Robert, who died in August, of fraud and civil conspiracy. It seeks to recover the millions of dollars Ms. Trump claims to have lost.

In its first sentence, the lawsuit says that, for the Trumps, “fraud was not just the family business — it was a way of life.” Beginning in the 1980s, the suit contends, the president and his siblings took control of the New York City real estate empire their father, Fred Trump Sr., had built and “exploited it to enrich themselves” to the detriment of everyone around them.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/nyregion/mary-trump-suing-trump-family.html

[soothsayer]

1. Interesting

[rzemanfl]

2. Good. K&R. n/t

[iluvtennis]

3. Take it to him Mary Trump...you go girl! nt

[Blue Owl]

4. Alright!

[Laelth]

5. Good for her.

I read her book, and I am certain that she has legitimate grievances. Whether or not they are actionable at this point is another question. Her claims are not frivolous. As an attorney, I would not hesitate to take her case.

-Laelth

[GopherGal]

6. The Timing is interesting

The obvious thought is that the suit gets Dastardly Donnie's misdeeds in the news during campaign season. (I imagine anything uncovered by the discovery process would likely come too late for campaign season.)

Just to explore alternative motivations: Does it benefit her to do this as/before her uncle Robert's estate is being settled?

[Laelth]

8. I assume that she has good legal counsel and knows what she is doing.

I am not certain about the timing re. Robert’s estate, but from reading her book it is clear that money is not what motivates her. She has timed this lawsuit to do maximum damage to Uncle Donald’s re-election campaign. For Mary, it’s not about the money. It’s about saving the country from a very evil man—and she would know.

-Laelth

[PatSeg]

11. I think you are right

She is experiencing considerable success right now, so I don't think money is her primary objective. She clearly wants to undermine Donald as she views him as a serious threat to the country.

[GopherGal]

13. I tend to agree.

As I said above, that's my first instinct. If she happens to get anything out of the discovery that helps to poison the well for Ivanka or Junior 2024, all the better (though I don't imagine there'd be much that would stick to the next generation down from the shenanigans.)

I do wonder a little if the release of the tapes having now likely completely torpedoed the relationship with her aunt Maryanne, she has less to lose than if she'd filed the lawsuit earlier.

[Laelth]

17. She baited Maryanne ... just for the recordings.

She loathes Maryanne, I think, and with good reason. Maryanne screwed over Mary and her brother just like Donald, Elizabeth, and Robert did. I seriously doubt that Mary is shedding any tears over her loss of whatever relationship she had with her Aunt Maryanne.

-Laelth

[barbtries]

7. thank you for that comment,

i wondered whether the ship had sailed on that issue. i hope she prevails, but doubt she'll ever see a cent, since he blows through money like it's air and is a notorious deadbeat.

[Laelth]

10. I doubt that Mary is in this for the money.

That has never been her prime motivator. She’s in this for the country. She has timed this suit to do maximum damage to Uncle Donald’s re-election campaign. I hope that she succeeds. If she gets wealthier too, all the better.

-Laelth

[Tommymac]

16. A legitimate Patriot she is.

Who'da thunk it.

Goddess Bless You Mary. You done good.

[Laelth]

18. From what I can tell, yes. She is. n/t

-Laelth

[pandr32]

22. I agree with you

[Illumination]

9. The DICKtatorTOT wanna be must be held accountable! Pile on & prosecute!...

[geomon666]

12. Assuming he doesn't immediately settle

the discovery phase is gonna be awesome.

[dlk]

14. Mary now has access to better litigators

They will likely prevail against the Trump crime family.

[Traildogbob]

15. I prefer

All suits happen after he is ousted. He needs to pay for his own legal fees. While WE pay, he has massive armies of lawyers at the feeding trough. Let him pay for his own lawyer, when he can’t afford much more than a court appointed lawyer fresh from an on line degree from a scam university.

[Bayard]

19. I'm not a lawyer, BUT

I think he has to pay his own legal expenses in a civil case.

What say you, lawyers?

[Traildogbob]

20. Rape case

Barr oversight? Since when has “he has to” ever applied legally? Who pays Barr and his team of criminals?

[avebury]

33. He is also taking campaign money to pay legal fees so

his idiot base is ponying up some of the money.

[Traildogbob]

35. Idiots they are

If he loses and faces millions in legal fees, they will give to go fund me’s to keep paying his bills.

[Brother Buzz]

21. Discovery, Baby!

It will be interesting to see how the orange anus' doctored records square with the haul of records Mary acquired (32 boxes, I think).

Also, it will be interesting if the Trump Campaign pays the orange anus' legal expenses.

Bummer, this will all shake out after the election.

That being said, Mary Trump did make a good argument in her book how she was cheated out of a ton of money. Money that was mysteriously transferred from Fred Trump's accounts into ones controlled by the orange anus. When the smoke clears we may learn the orange anus also short changed both his sister, Elizabeth and Maryanne.

[Marcuse]

23. Barr will claim Mary's action is political and therefore within the scope of the Presidency and DOJ

[Brother Buzz]

24. LOL, Barr, like the orange anus, is a perfect reverse barometer

[DeminPennswoods]

32. Sure should be

Her records are what the NYT used to reveal the tax fraud the Trump family has engaged in over the years.

[Hekate]

25. Best of luck to her, and I hope she gets what is rightfully hers from that Mob family. Safely. nt

[Botany]

26. "For the Trumps "fraud was not just the family business -- it was a way of life."

[SallyHemmings]

27. Bravo!

[hlthe2b]

28. Best Headline I've read today.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, Mary!

[Grins]

29. From the filing, page 8, these words: "unspeakable cruelty".

Pretty much sums it up!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. Good

His BS is catching up to him

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

31. Good for her.

Wishing her justice.

[dalton99a]

34. Excellent.