Former President Trump is in New York on Thursday for his second deposition in a fraud lawsuit spearheaded by New York Attorney General Letitia James (D).
Trump is returning to New York after appearing last week in Manhattan for his arraignment on 34 felony counts from the local district attorney related to hush-money paid to an adult film star shortly before the 2016 election. The former president has denied any wrongdoing.
In the separate lawsuit from James, the state attorney general alleges Trump, along with his three adult children and his business entities, manipulated property values to obtain investments and loan benefits over numerous years.
Trump previously appeared for his first deposition in the civil fraud case last August, and did not answer anything but procedural questions, invoking the Fifth Amendment more than 400 times. It is unclear whether he will answer questions in his deposition on Thursday.
“President Trump is not only willing but also eager to testify before the Attorney General today,” Trump attorney Alina Habba said in a statement reported by The Associated Press. “He remains resolute in his stance that he has nothing to conceal, and he looks forward to educating the Attorney General about the immense success of his multi-billion dollar company.”
“The good thing about the A.G. Peekaboo James ‘persecution’ is that I will finally be able to show what a great, profitable, and valuable company I built, actually, some of the greatest real estate assets anywhere in the world,” Trump said in a Truth Social post Thursday.
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