This week former President Donald Trump, a man whose sole animating principle is self-aggrandizement at the expense of others, did something decidedly out of character: He sued someone.
In fact, he sued several someones, including his niece Mary Trump and multiple reporters from The New York Times, alleging the paper's 2018 exposé on Trump's history of financial misdealings and alleged crimes necessitated a "insidious plot" between the Times and Mary Trump to obtain his tax records as part of the investigation. And while Trump has a well-documented history of threatening litigation against anyone he perceives to have wronged him, this suit is notable for the fact that, well, it actually exists beyond the former president's usual rhetorical bluster.
