Mary Trump begs for key Trump family discovery one more time
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Left: President Donald Trump gestures during a reception for Republican members of Congress in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, July 22, 2025, in Washington (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson). Right: Mary Trump discussing her book “Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir” at The 92nd Street Y on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024, in New York (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP).

Mary Trump”s lawyers made their final pitch to a judge in the hopes that he’ll ultimately compel the discovery of documents on the “valuation” of Fred Trump Sr.’s estate and boost their defense as they try to defeat her uncle, Donald Trump, in his lawsuit.

The reply in support of reargument from the president’s defendant niece and her attorney, Theodore Boutrous, on Friday stated that New York Supreme Court Justice Robert R. Reed was wrong to exclude so-called “Estate Valuation Materials” from discovery.

Those materials, the daughter of Fred Trump Jr. insists, will help her prove she was fraudulently induced into a 2001 Trump family settlement and, therefore, the “confidentiality provision” she had signed was void — torpedoing Donald Trump’s breach of contract case.

The estate materials are “relevant, indeed central, to a live affirmative defense in this case,” wrote the defense.

“Defendant seeks the ‘Estate Valuation Materials’ because they are necessary to demonstrate that she was deliberately misled into entering into the settlement agreement by Plaintiff’s misrepresentations about the value of assets at issue in the underlying estate litigation,” the filing said. “Those materials are plainly relevant and discoverable under the CPLR.”

“Defendant respectfully submits that, by denying her discovery from the Plaintiff on her affirmative defense of fraud, the Order deprived Defendant of the opportunity to develop a factual record and present her defense on the merits,” the reply in support of further argument over discovery continued. “Further, the Order is likewise hindering Defendant’s ability to obtain third-party discovery because, as of the filing of this reply, a third party has refused to provide subpoenaed discovery relevant to Defendant’s affirmative defense of fraud on the ground that the Court has concluded it is outside the scope of relevant discovery.”

The defendant’s uncle has claimed that she, the New York Times, and Times reporters Susanne Craig, David Barstow, and Russell Buettner “maliciously conspir[ed] against him” in an “insidious plot” to expose his confidential tax records and accusing him of “outright fraud” in the Pulitzer Prize-winning story headlined, “Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father.”

Last week, Trump attorney Michael Madaio asked Reed to reject Mary Trump’s motion to reargue her discovery position just as the judge has done “two other times already.”

While Mary Trump has claimed the judge “overlooked or misapprehended material facts regarding the state of the pleadings, as well as governing law,” when he refused to allow discovery two months ago and hamstrung her “fraud defense,” the Trump team answered that Reed should simply stick with his prior reasoning and put a definitive end to the defendant’s fishing expedition.

Years earlier, Reed decided that Mary Trump “clearly and unambiguously released [Trump family] defendants from unknown claims, including fraud claims” when she signed the 2001 agreement, meaning her then-lawsuit should fail along with her discovery quest.

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