No matter how much he tries to distract from that reality, the facts don't lie."įADEL: Now, what happened when Trump testified the last time?īERNSTEIN: So it went like this. The New York AG, Letitia James, is shrugging off Trump's cancellation, saying, quote, "Donald Trump already testified in our financial fraud case against him." She added, quote, "we have already proven that he committed years of financial fraud and unjustly enriched himself and his family. On Sunday, Trump's lawyer called this unconstitutional. He was briefly successful, but it was reinstated, so Trump couldn't go after the judge's clerk from the stand. Then Trump tried to get an appeals court to overturn the gag order. Trump did anyway, twice, and the judge fined him twice. She received so many death threats, she can no longer take the subway to work.īERNSTEIN: So Judge Arthur Engoron said to Trump, you can come after me, but not my staff. What is that about?īERNSTEIN: Right from the beginning of this case, Trump started going after the judge's clerk, accusing her of bias. It doesn't exist."įADEL: Now, Trump's lawyers say he was being made to unfairly testify while under a gag order. That leaves the defense final witness as Eli Bartov, a New York University professor, who testified last week that he saw no accounting fraud and said of Trump's financial statements, quote, "I have never seen a statement that provides so many details and is so transparent as this statement. Trump told me last night, that's because of the legal risk that the attorney general could cross-examine Trump on some of his lies and misstatements, which could hurt his legal strategies also in other cases. One former Donald Trump lawyer, Ty Cobb, had even predicted last week on CNN that Trump wouldn't show up. But first Eric and then Donald Trump abruptly changed plans. For a while now, Trump's legal team has been saying that Eric Trump and Donald Trump would be among the trial's final witnesses. Hi, Andrea.īERNSTEIN: Well, it may be true that when it comes to testifying, Trump really doesn't have anything more to say. But on the eve of the hearing, Trump posted on social media, I have already testified to everything and have nothing more to say.įADEL: NPR's Andrea Bernstein has been covering the case and joins us now from New York to explain what's coming next. His lawyers had said he would take the witness stand in his own defense today. Donald Trump plans to avoid testifying for a second time in the New York civil fraud trial against him and his company.
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