Trump in the courtroom at the trial: 'the prosecutor is corrupt'
"Today I will go to court, to fight for my name and my reputation. We have a corrupt state attorney general, the trial is a scam, it is his election campaign."
These in summary are the main concepts expressed by the former American president before entering the Chamber in Manhattan in a statement a few minutes before the civil trial in which he was accused of having inflated company assets with the aim of defrauding banks and insurance companies.
Together with Donald Trump there are two of his adult sons Donald Jr and Eric, accused of having inflated the value of company assets by over two billion dollars for a decade to obtain better conditions from banks and insurance companies. The judge in the case, Arthur Engoron, has already found him and his sons "responsible for fraud", now it is a question of examining other charges and establishing the extent of the sentence.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has asked for a fine of $250 million, which she believes is equal to the amount illegally earned from false financial statements. The process risks compromising the image of a successful entrepreneur that the tycoon has built over the years, to the point of transforming an entrepreneurial brand into a political brand. The judge has already stripped him of some licenses to operate in New York state.
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