TODAY: Trump To Be Deposed Again NY Fraud Case

ABC News reports:

Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to New York City Thursday to sit for a second deposition as part of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ $250 million civil fraud lawsuit, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Trump previously sat for an hourslong deposition in August, prior to James filing her lawsuit that accused Trump, his eldest children and his company of fraudulently inflating the value of the Trump real estate portfolio and his net worth.

Trump is expected to sit for this new deposition Thursday at the attorney general’s downtown office. The former president has been seeking to delay the start of the trial in the civil case, but the judge has said the October start is firm “come hell or high water.”

The Washington Post reports:



The lawsuit has the potential to effectively cripple the Trump family’s business operations in New York, where the commercial real estate and golf resort business is headquartered. James (D) is seeking to recover more than $250 million in what her office called ill-gotten gains from fraud, and bar the Trumps from serving as executives of any company operating in New York.

Trump spent hours with the New York attorney general in an August deposition, during which he repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions. Trump emerged from the session with praise for the “very professional” way James’s team handled the meeting, in which he refused more than 400 times to answer questions about his businesses, property valuations and loans.