The former president will be deposed in the $250 million fraud lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
DONALD TRUMP USED TO LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY. He still returns, but only under court order, it appears.
On Thursday, the former president will appear in Manhattan to testify under oath in a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The $250 million lawsuit accuses Trump and three of his children of “numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation” in connection with their state business. The trial is scheduled for later this year.
Trump was deposed in the case before James filed the suit last summer. He was uninterested in answering questions, repeatedly invoking the Fifth Amendment. The former president does not appear to be in the mood to answer questions on Thursday.
“I will be heading downtown to meet with a Racist who leaked that I would be there at 9:30 A.M.,” he wrote on Truth Social Thursday morning. “The leak makes the Police and Secret Service’s jobs much more difficult.” This civil case, like all of the other Election Interference cases brought against me, is ridiculous. This case would never have happened if I had a fair judge. MAGA!”
Trump has been desperately attempting to portray the numerous investigations into his behavior as “election interference,” while labeling the Black people investigating him as racist, including James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Last week, Trump appeared in Manhattan to enter a not-guilty plea to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records brought by Bragg in a landmark indictment of the former president. Willis is looking into whether Trump interfered in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election.
The Justice Department’s investigation into Trump’s handling of sensitive material after leaving the White House, which is being overseen by Special Counsel Jack Smith, may pose the greatest threat to Trump. According to the New York Times, investigators are now questioning witnesses about whether Trump showed a map containing classified information to people who should not have seen it. Smith, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland last fall, is also looking into the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
There’s also E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit, in which she accuses Trump of raping her in the 1990s. Trump has tried unsuccessfully to have the case dismissed, and his lawyers are now arguing that the April 25 trial should be postponed due to the chaotic media coverage surrounding Trump’s other legal woes. Carroll’s lawyers, to say the least, disagree. “The Constitution does not absolve Trump from standing trial on a sexual assault claim simply because the national media has revisited longstanding reports about his various extramarital affairs,” one of them, Robert Kaplan, wrote on Wednesday.
