Former US President Donald Trump will appear “pumped up” in New York on Monday to testify at the trial that threatens his real estate empire, assured on Friday Eric Trump, who is accused of serious financial fraud along with his brother Donald Jr. and their father .
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Since Wednesday, the Manhattan courthouse has been the site of a parade by the Trump family clan for this non-jury civil trial that began just a month ago.
After Donald Jr. and Eric this week, on Monday at 10:00 a.m. it will be the turn of the former tenant of the White House, who dreams of returning there on January 20, 2025.
On Monday, the United States will be one day shy of the presidential election on November 5, 2024. Donald Trump is the favorite to face Democratic President Joe Biden in the Republican primaries.
“My father will of course be there (Monday). I know he’s excited. And he thinks it’s one of the most extraordinary injustices he’s ever seen,” said youngest son Eric Trump, 39, on the second day of his hearing before the New York Supreme Court (first instance, editor’s note). presided over by Judge Arthur Engoron.
This civil lawsuit in which New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking $250 million in financial fraud damages “is a joke,” protested Eric Trump.
“And folks, we are going to win this case. I promise you that we will win because we have not made a single mistake,” he assured.
“Masquerade”
And as he left court at midday Friday, with proceedings adjourned until Monday, Eric Trump called the trial a “masquerade.”
The Trump Organization family empire is already in jeopardy because Judge Engoron had already ruled before the trial in a scathing Sept. 26 order that Mr. Trump, his sons and other executives were responsible for “repeated financial fraud cases” in the 2010s.
While the former president doesn’t risk prison time, the civil verdict could cause him to lose control of part of his group, in addition to a hefty fine and a ban from running companies in New York.
So much so that Donald Jr., 45 years old, and Eric, the group’s two vice presidents, with a very dapper and almost identical appearance with smart suits and ties, had the same line of defense this week: They weren’t worried Not about the financial reports are at the heart of the process, a task left to the accountants.
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Based on these financial statements of the Republican billionaire, a kind of photos of his assets that list his properties – such as Trump Tower in Manhattan – the New York Attorney General’s Office accuses the Trumps of inflating the value of the group’s assets the 2010s.
Billions of dollars in fraud
The accusation is that fraudulent maneuvers amounting to billions of euros are intended to obtain cheaper loans from banks and better insurance conditions.
As for Ivanka Trump, one of the ex-president’s daughters, against whom no civil case has been brought and who left the Trump Organization in 2017 to advise her father in the White House, she lost her appeal in court on Thursday evening against an order of Judge Engoron that she come and give testimony.
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The date given was November 8th.
This lawsuit against the Trump family is just one of the New York businessman’s many legal problems that will shape the election campaign for a year.
He faces four criminal charges, including one in federal court in Washington, alleging he tried to overturn the results of the November 2020 presidential election.