Judge Discards Mary Trump Fraud Lawsuit against Uncle Donald Trump

Mary Trump, the niece of former president Trump, has lost a lawsuit that alleged fraud against her uncle.

In a lawsuit filed in September 2020, the younger Trump accused her aunts and uncles of conspiring to defraud her of millions of dollars by trying to “con her into signing her interests away” after her father, Fred Trump Jr. passed away. She blamed some elder relatives, including Trump, his sister Maryanne Trump Barry, and his late brother Robert Trump for her alleged misfortune.

Mary Trump’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said the plaintiff will be pursuing an immediate appeal.

“Yesterday’s decision is both incorrect and disappointing, especially since it took more than two years for us to get here. In our view, the court overlooked applicable case law and the well-pleaded allegations in Mary Trump’s complaint,” Kaplan told CNN in a statement.

Mary filed the litigation two months after she released her book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, intended to be an exposé of her family’s business empire. She claimed her uncles and aunts neglected their responsibility as her financial caretaker, making decisions that failed to maximize or harmed her material benefit.

“Fred Trump Jr. died in 1981 when Mary was just sixteen years old,” the lawsuit reads. “Upon his death, Mary inherited valuable minority interests in the family business. Donald, Maryanne, and Robert committed to watch over her interests as fiduciaries. They lied.”

“Rather than protect Mary’s interests, they designed and carried out a complex scheme to siphon funds away from her interests, conceal their grift, and deceive her about the true value of what she had inherited,” it said. Mary maintained that she was entitled to money out of which she was cheated by her family members.

The former president is expected to announced his third presidential run from Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday evening.

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