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Trump’s $100 million revenge suit just re-spotlit the tax story he hates
Trump filed a $100 million lawsuit against The New York Times and his niece Mary Trump over the paper’s 2018 reporting on his finances, accusing them of an “insidious plot” to obtain tax records. Instead of burying the story, the filing gave it fresh oxygen and invited another round of scrutiny over the family, the taxes, and the credibility gap at the center of Trump’s brand. The legal theory is built to sound dramatic, but the political effect is simpler: he looked reactive, thin-skinned, and still unable to move on from a report that punctured his self-made myth.