The former American president filed a complaint against the daily in 2021, after an investigation explaining how the billionaire had inherited a fortune by evading taxes.
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New legal setback for the real estate mogul. Former US President Donald Trump was ordered to pay $392,638 in legal costs to New York Times and to journalists from the daily, after having had his charges against them dismissed, Friday January 12.
Donald Trump filed a complaint in September 2021 against the American daily, accusing three of its journalists of “sneaky plot” to obtain your tax documents. In 2018, they published an investigation rewarded by the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, which told how the former promoter, who claims to have made himself, had built his fortune. She assured that Donald Trump had in reality received from his father, over several years, the equivalent today of 413 million dollars which would have been partly transferred through a shell company, allowing them to escape tax.
Republican primary favorite
In May 2023, a judge in the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York dismissed the real estate mogul and ordered him to reimburse the daily’s legal costs. In a new decision rendered Friday, this judge considered “reasonable” the amount of attorney’s fees estimated by the New York Timesand ordered Donald Trump to reimburse him in full at this amount.
Donald Trump is the big favorite in the Republican primaries for the November presidential election, which begin on January 15 in Iowa. The billionaire is seeking by all means to postpone his various criminal trials as late as possible, and predicted “chaos in the country” if the American justice system did not drop the charges against him.