The former President of the United States testifies in a civil fraud case, in which Trump and his family company are threatened, among other things, with fines of $250 million.
Judge Arthur Engoron asked Trump’s lawyers to persuade the former president to answer questions directly.
-I urge you to check it out if you can. If you can’t, I will. The judge said: I will send him abroad.
We are here to hear him answer questions, and most of the time he does not.
The children have witnessed it before
Trump called the trial “very unfair.”
“I hope the public is watching,” he said during his testimony.
When Trump, who is leading the race to become the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, arrived at the courtroom, he described the case as politically motivated and an attempt to silence him, Agence France-Presse reported.
Last week, Donald Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, testified in the case.
The amount of the fine will be determined
Former President Trump and his sons have already been convicted of inflating the value of the family business’s assets and holdings, which led to favorable deals and low interest rates, among other things.
Now it must be decided how large the fine will be, whether some property will have to be given up, and whether Trump family members will be subject to a form of New York business ban.
Trump had previously been barred from making personal attacks in connection with the trial in New York, after he wrote disparagingly about court staff on social media. He was fined for breaching the court order.
People protest against former President Donald Trump outside the courthouse. Photo: Stefan Jeremiah/AP/TT
Four major criminal charges have been brought against former President Donald Trump. In addition, a number of civil and financial disputes are ongoing.
Washington, DC
Donald Trump was indicted in early August for attempting to overturn the results of the presidential election. The federal indictment is considered the heaviest among the ongoing legal proceedings, which are the four charges related to the storming of the Capitol building in January 2021. The investigation is led by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith, who proposed that the trial begin on January 2.
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Mar-a-Lago, Florida
Trump was indicted last June on 37 counts primarily related to the former president’s handling of classified and sensitive government documents stored at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida after his time in the White House. This investigation is also federal and is being led by Jack Smith. The trial is scheduled to take place in May next year, just six months before the presidential elections that Trump wants to run.
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Accounting crimes in New York
The indictment, filed in March, includes 34 counts against Donald Trump, who is accused of, among other things, soliciting payments to people who threatened to release sensitive information about him in connection with the 2016 presidential campaign. The trial in the state case is scheduled for March 2024. .
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State of Georgia
The indictment, which includes several individuals, including Donald Trump, relates to attempts to overturn the election results in Georgia by, among other things, spreading rumors and false voters. In the middle is a phone call Trump made to the state’s election commissioner, Brad Raffensperger, in which the then-president asked him to “find the 11,780 votes” needed to defeat Joe Biden there.
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