Donald Trump remained silent on Wednesday during a six-hour sworn hearing with the New York Attorney General who suspects him of financial fraud within his Trump Organization group, in the midst of a political storm after a spectacular FBI search at his Florida home. .
The former president of the United States has been targeted since 2019 with two of his children – Ivanka and Donald Jr – by a civil investigation by the highest magistrate of New York State, Letitia James.
He was heard by Ms. James and her team in Manhattan from 1:00 p.m. GMT to 7:00 p.m. GMT, but he announced in a press release at the start of the hearing that he had invoked the famous 5th amendment to the American Constitution, which allows any litigant to do not testify against yourself.
Donald Trump was heard Wednesday by Letitia James, Attorney General of New York. This elected Democrat is the highest magistrate in the State of New York. [Mary Altaffer – Keystone]
The magistrate, an elected Democrat, confirmed this in a brief statement after her face-to-face meeting with the Republican billionaire and assured that she “will pursue the facts (and the application) of the law, wherever that leads. “. “Our investigations are continuing,” promised Ms. James, who has been insisting for three years that “no one is above the law” in the United States.
Always “victim”
On the contrary, in his press release, the 45th American president once again presented himself as the victim of a “witch hunt” and claimed to have “refused to answer questions” under the Constitution.
At the end of the hearing, the businessman spoke on his social network Truth Social of a “very professional meeting”. “I have a fantastic business with great assets, very little debt and lots of CASH. It only happens in America!” he added. As soon as he walked into the district attorney’s office, he mocked her “lavish, beautiful, expensive office, great working conditions while people are being killed in New York and she spends her time and effort trying to ‘catch Trump’.
Delayed hearing
And when he arrived in New York on Tuesday evening, he even accused the African-American prosecutor of being “racist”, claiming to be, with his family and the Trump Organization, the target of “attacks from all sides” in a “Republic banana” governed by Democrat Joe Biden.
This hearing of Donald Trump, who left power on January 20, 2021 without acknowledging the victory of Joe Biden and who openly flirts with the idea of running again in 2024, had been requested by Ms James for months and had been fixed for the 15 July. But the death of Donald Trump’s first wife, Ivana, had further postponed the event.
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