Trump slår dommeren ned, da han vender tilbage til retssagen om bedrageri i New York

Tidligere præsident Donald Trump vendte tilbage til domstol på Manhattan tirsdag for at deltage i det igangværende civile bedrageri retssag mod ham og hans selskab.

Uden for retssalen ved Manhattans højesteret slog Trump til med den dommer, der skal afgøre sagen.

“He’s a Democrat judge, he’s very liberal, and I believe he’s under a lot of pressure,” Trump told reporters stationed in the hallway.

Trump gentog også angreb mod New Yorks justitsminister Letitia James, som anlagde sagen og anklagede Trump, to af hans sønner, Trump-organisationen og andre for et årelangt mønster af forretningssvig.

James kræver omkring 250 millioner dollars i erstatning og en retskendelse, der permanent forhindrer Trump og andre tiltalte i at drive forretning i New York.

James, som også var til stede i retten tirsdag, skød tilbage mod Trump, efter at retsdagen var afsluttet.

“Trump continues to rant and rave and scream at the cameras” and “use this courtroom as a means to raise funds for his campaign,” James told reporters outside court.

“Trump may lie, but numbers don’t lie,” she said, asserting that her office has repeatedly demonstrated in court that Trump’s financial statements were inflated “to enrich himself, his family and his company.”

“His entire empire was built on nothing but lies and on sinking sand,” she said.

Trump sagde, at han vil være tilbage i retten onsdag.

Judge Arthur Engoron has already ruled that Trump and others in the case are liable for fraud. The judge’s decision revoked the defendants’ New York business certificates and ordered an independent receiver to oversee their dissolution. A New York appeals court has temporarily sat på pause annullering af disse certifikater.

The trial centers on James’ six remaining claims in the case, which is being conducted without a jury. Engoron will deliver verdicts in the case himself.

Trump’s remarks outside court came after he slammed Engoron as a “Radical Left Democrat” in a social media post Tuesday morning.

“America cannot let this happen. Our legal system is corrupt and broken!” Trump skrev om Truth Social.

Trump havde oprindeligt planlagt at være til stede ved retssagen i denne uge for at aflægge vidnesbyrd om Michael Cohen, hans tidligere personlige advokat og fixer.

Cohen’s testimony before Congress in 2019, in which he alleged that the Trump Organization misleadingly changed the values of key real estate assets for financial benefits, prompted James to launch a probe into Trump and his business.

But Cohen’s expected appearance in the trial was delayed because of what he called a “pre-existing medical condition that impedes my ability to testify.”

“Rest assured, I will testify at the earliest opportunity,” Cohen said Saturday in a statement to NBC News.

Trump har nægtet at have begået fejl i sagen. Han kritiserede gentagne gange James, dommeren og retssagen generelt, da han var i retten i en del af den første uge af retssagen i begyndelsen af ​​oktober.

I løbet af den strækning pålagde Engoron en partial gag orden on Trump after the former president sent a social media post attacking the judge’s law clerk.

Engoron beordrede Trump og andre i sagen til ikke at tale offentligt om nogen af ​​hans medarbejdere.

Trump er siden blevet ramt af endnu en partial gag orden i en føderal straffesag i Washington, DC, hvor han står over for anklager relateret til hans bestræbelser på at omstøde sit valgtab til præsidenten i 2020 Joe Biden.

Trump, who is running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, left the New York civil trial after two and a half days, after complaining that he was “stuck here” instead of campaigning.

Han er ikke forpligtet til at deltage i retssagen, der ventes at vare til sidst i december.

Trump i Truth Social-posten gentog tirsdag morgen sin påstand om, at han uretfærdigt er blevet nægtet en jury i sagen.

“I can’t have a JURY and am being viciously tried under a Statute that has never been used before. The Radical Left Democrat Judge, WHO IS HIGHLY POLITICAL, serves as Judge, Jury, and everything else,” he said.

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