Former US President Donald Trump appears again in court in New York this Thursday to be questioned in a fraud case at his company Trump Organization, a week after his indictment in another criminal case in the same city.
The ex-president’s caravan crossed the streets of Manhattan, led by a small number of supporters with banners reading “Trump or Death” and shouting “New York hates you”, echoing the “witch hunt” hypothesis ” that the ex-president denounces regarding the charges for which he is accused.
Previously, the Republican left Trump Tower with his fist raised, and from there he went to the office of Attorney General Letitia James for his declaration in the case in which he is accused of alleged tax fraud.
This is the second time in the month that the tycoon appears before the courts of New York, where he has his tax domicile.
This is a civil case that is instructing proceedings against Trump and three of his children, from whom it claims 250 million dollars for the alleged tax and financial fraud in the evaluation of the group’s assets.
“I’m going to downtown (New York) to meet a racist,” Trump wrote of the prosecutor, an African-American Democrat elected at the polls.reported the AFP news agency.
The judicial official had already questioned Trump under oath last August. The trial is scheduled to begin on October 2, 2023.
In this case, James accuses the 76-year-old Republican tycoon and his three children of having “deliberately” manipulated the group’s assets – which include golf clubs, luxury hotels and other properties – to obtain more advantageous loans from banks or reduce taxes. .
Trump had appeared in New York court last week on bribery charges.
In that file, Colombian-born judge Juan Merchán indicted him for 34 charges related to falsifying business records in the $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in the final stretch of the 2016 election campaign to keep secret an alleged extramarital affair that occurred ten years earlier and that he always denied.
His then lawyer Michael Cohen was in charge of making the payment and the tycoon reimbursed him the fractional amount, allegedly passing it off as professional fees, according to the indictment.
The former president, who aspires to return to the White House in the 2024 elections, described the case as “ridiculous”“like the rest of the causes of electoral interference of which I am the object.”
The tycoon said this week that he does not plan to withdraw his candidacy in the 2024 presidential elections, even if he is convicted of the criminal charges filed against him.