Bloomberg News reports:
Donald Trump gave up on the $500 million lawsuit he filed against his estranged former lawyer Michael Cohen, just four days before the former president was due to answer questions under oath in the case. Trump’s notice of voluntary dismissal was filed Thursday night in federal court in Miami, without giving a reason.
It comes at the end of a busy week for the former president, who delayed his deposition in the Cohen suit so he could attend the start of New York state’s civil fraud trial accusing him of inflating his assets by billions of dollars a year to get better terms from banks.
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Donald Trump was supposed to be deposed by @MichaelCohen212 on Monday in a lawsuit Trump himself filed against his former attorney.
Instead, Trump dropped the suit tonight. https://t.co/bX30yHGEte pic.twitter.com/X9F433gDGZ
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 6, 2023
Someone really doesn’t want to be deposed.
And I know why. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/kfpJh7IDhH
— Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) October 6, 2023
Michael Cohen statement on Trump dismissing the $500m suit against him: pic.twitter.com/3nSIFM96xl
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) October 6, 2023