Former President Trump Expresses Anger as Fraud Trial Continues

New York (EFE).- Former US President Donald Trump left the New York court where the trial against him for business fraud is being held, expressing anger after his lawyers insisted on dismissing the case and the judge offered another refusal.

The day was marked by the testimony of a star witness for the Prosecutor’s Office, Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen. Interrogated between yesterday and today by both parties, and that he blamed the businessman for manipulating the figures of his assets, according to accredited media.

Cohen said he had an “aversion” toward Trump, admitted to having lied under oath in the past and clarified that the businessman did not specifically ask him to inflate the figures and that he did not remember if the request came from him or from the financial chief, Allen Weisselberg.

A Trump lawyer considered these statements arguments in his favor and asked the judge, Arthur Engoron, to dismiss the case due to lack of evidence, something he rejected, which generated an abrupt reaction from the accused, who got up and left the room. .

According to NBC, he returned a short time later and the lawyer, Cliff Robert, reiterated his request, to which Engoron responded: “Of course not. “There is enough evidence in this case to fill the courtroom.”

The fraud trial against Trump

Trump, before getting into his vehicle and leaving for the airport, according to his spokesperson, complained to the media. “That should be the end of the case. If we had a jury, this case would never have actually started. “This is very unfair.”

Today’s session left another news, since Trump was fined for the second time, last week with $5,000. And today with 10,000, for violating a judge’s order that prohibits him from making comments about court personnel and that has its origin in a personal attack he made of his secretary on social networks.

The fraud trial against Trump, his two oldest children, his company and two partners, in which six charges related to illegalities are being settled, will last until mid-December; The judge already ruled against them, holding them responsible for persistent fraud in the Trump Organization.