Trump decries political motivation in cases, judge says 'control him or...' The New York civil fraud trial is one of six that the former president is facing amid his bid to return to the White House. The suit was filed last year by New York Attorney General Letitia James and accuses the former president and his real estate company of lying about the value of his assets.
Trump is accused of inflating his net worth by as much as $3.6 billion a year to get better terms on loans and insurance, reaping $250 million in “illegal profit" from 2011 to 2021. With the New York attorney general’s office resting its case against Trump on Wednesday, lawyers have made a longshot bid to immediately end the trial.
“There’s no victim. There’s no complainant.
There’s no injury. All of that is established now by the evidence," Trump lawyer Christopher Kise said.
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