Ex-President Donald Trump solutions questions throughout his second deposition in a authorized battle with New York’s lawyer normal over his firm’s business practices.
(Reuters)
Donald Trump has testified below oath for round seven hours in a New York civil case that accuses the ex-president and three of his kids of business fraud.
The behind-closed-doors deposition on Thursday got here per week after Trump’s historic arraignment on felony costs in a Manhattan courtroom in a separate case.
The 76-year-old Republican is dealing with a slew of state, federal, and congressional probes that threaten to complicate his bid to regain the presidency in subsequent 12 months’s White House election.
The prolonged deposition was the second time he had sat for questions within the lawsuit introduced by New York state lawyer normal Letitia James.
Trump arrived at James’s workplace in decrease Manhattan round 10:00 am [local time] and returned to Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue shortly after 6:30 pm [local time].
“This civil case is ridiculous, just like all of the other Election Interference cases being brought against me,” he wrote on his social media website Truth Social forward of his testimony.
A lawyer for Trump and a spokesperson for James didn’t return requests for remark.
James sued Trump, Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump in September final 12 months alleging they dedicated “incredible” fraud on the Trump Organization.
Her lawsuit asserts that they lied to tax collectors, lenders and insurers for years in a scheme that routinely misstated the worth of the organisation’s properties to complement themselves.
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James mentioned they offered fraudulent statements of Trump’s web price and false asset valuations “to obtain and satisfy loans, get insurance benefits, and pay lower taxes.”
Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in subsequent 12 months’s presidential election, has used his widespread chorus of “witch hunt” to explain the case.
He appeared for six hours of questioning within the probe final August, shortly earlier than James filed her lawsuit.
In a dramatic court docket look final Tuesday that transfixed the nation, Trump denied 34 felony counts associated to hush cash paid to grownup actress Stormy Daniels shortly earlier than the 2016 election that introduced him to energy.
He grew to become the primary former or sitting president to ever be charged with a criminal offense.
That case has been criticised virtually unanimously by Republican officers, together with congressional leaders who’ve requested Manhattan’s district lawyer Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, to testify in regards to the probe earlier than Congress.
James, additionally an elected Democrat, has requested that Trump pay a minimum of $250 million in penalties — a sum she says he produced from the alleged fraud — and that his household be banned from working companies within the state.
No felony costs can stem from her case, which is anticipated to go to trial later this 12 months.
Trump can be being investigated over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss within the state of Georgia, his alleged mishandling of categorized paperwork taken from the White House and his involvement within the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
A civil trial for a sexual assault and defamation lawsuit introduced by former journal columnist E Jean Carroll in opposition to Trump is scheduled to start out in New York later this month.
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