Trump secures small legal victory

Trending Politics reported: Former President Donald Trump secured a silver lining after Thursday’s criminal conviction which will allow him to sue a niece who provided information about his tax returns to the New York Times in 2018.

Reuters reported that a New York state court of appeals ruled on the same day that the former president is within his rights to sue Mary Trump for providing personal materials about his tax returns to the mainstream outlet, which ultimately won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting. The Appellate Division in Manhattan agreed a “substantial” legal basis exists for Trump to argue that Mary Trump violated agreement bounding the documents to secrecy as part of a settlement relating to the estate of Fred Trump Sr. The decision upheld a similar one reached in 2023 by Justice Robert Reed of the state Supreme Court, though Reed previously dismissed Trump’s suits against the Times reporters and ordered him to pay $392,639 in restitution.