— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 3, 2020
Fraud, in civil law, is the great solvent: it undoes everything. If you can prove fraud (and admittedly, it's not a low bar), you can undo almost everything related to the fraud.
The law does not like to reward fraud by giving any fruits of the transaction a pass. The worse the fraud, the more fundamental it is to the contract (like an NDA), the more the fraud dissolves the contract. I don't want to overstate it, but fraud really can dissolve almost any agreement, rendering its enforcement not only impossible, but contrary to law and public policy.
So it's a good legal strategy, if it works. No one can say, right now, whether it will or not. But given Trump's track record of alleged fraudulent dealings, some of those chickens may finally be coming home to roost.
It would be good schadenfreude, anyway.
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