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Former President Donald Trump beat up the NY AG that had filed a lawsuit against him and his family business.
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His comments came at a Friday meeting where he also lifted his children, who were named in the suit.
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Trump called Letitia James “racist” and said her actions were “gross prosecutorial misconduct.”
At a Friday rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, former President Donald Trump took the time to lift three of his children in response to a new fraud case brought against him.
At the meeting in support of GOP Senate candidate Rep. Ted Budd, Trump said he and his fellow MAGA Republicans don’t “terrorists” and alleged President Joe Biden “is cognitively handicapped and unable to lead our country, which may very well end up in World War III.”
But Trump spent more time berating New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has filed a massive fraud case against the Trump Organization.
The James office said, “Trump has falsely inflated his wealth by billions of dollars to further enrich himself and defraud the system” and “repeatedly and persistently manipulated asset values to get banks to lend money to the Trump- organization.”
The lawsuit follows a three-year investigation into Trump and his business dealings.
Trump on Friday called James “racist” — an accusation he has also made on multiple other occasions — and referred to her actions as “gross prosecutorial misconduct”.
The attorney general accuses him, his children and the Trump Organization of years of financial fraud. The case is just one of many legal challenges Trump faces, including the investigation into mishandled classified documents in Mar-a-Lago and the investigation into the January 6 uprising.
At the rally, Trump defended his children named in the suit, apparently reading from a teleprompter: “Ivanka, Ivanka is a very good person. Don Jr., he is a good person. Eric. Eric. These are good people.”
He added: “This crazy radical leftist madman James should go after the killers, the gangbangers, the drug dealers.”
James’s office did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
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