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Jun
In the charges against his niece, Trump argued that she had broken the terms of a confidentiality agreement that was part of a settlement tied to the will of Fred C. Trump, the former president's father, who died in 1999. Mrs. Trump, who revealed her role as a source for the Times in a 2020 memoir, argues that the First Amendment protected her actions. In a three-page opinion Thursday, the state appeals court upheld a lower court's ruling that there was a "substantial legal basis" for Trump's breach of contract. The opinion also notes several questions that will need to…