Donald Trump is scheduled to be deposed in New York on Wednesday as part of the attorney general’s civil investigation into alleged fraud at his family business, the ex-president said on his social media network.
“Tonight in New York City,” Trump posted just after midnight on his Truth Social.
“To see the racist NYS Attorney General tomorrow to continue the greatest witch hunt in US history!” he added. “My great company and myself are under attack from all sides. Banana Republic!”
New York Attorney General Letitia James suspects that the Trump Organization fraudulently overstated real estate when applying for bank loans and understated it to the tax authorities to pay less taxes.
Trump and his eldest children, Donald Jr. and Ivanka, were scheduled to testify under oath in July, but testimony was delayed due to the death of the former president’s first wife.
The Trumps have denied any wrongdoing, and the former Republican leader has accused the probe of being politically motivated.
If James, an African-American Democrat, finds evidence of financial wrongdoing, she can sue the Trump Organization for damages but cannot press charges because this is a civil investigation.
The James probe is one of several legal battles Trump is embroiled in and threatens to complicate any bid for another White House run in 2024.
The deposition follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation raid on Trump’s Florida residence in an escalation of legal investigations into the 45th President that has sparked a political firestorm.
The FBI declined to give a reason for the raid, but US media said agents were conducting a court-authorized search in connection with the possible misuse of classified documents sent to Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House in January 2021.
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