Former president says property estimates were inaccurate as judge threatens to cut testimony short
Donald Trump on Monday testified that his company did not provide accurate estimates of many of his properties in a rambling and defiant performance on the witness box in a civil fraud trial in New York.
Unlike the four criminal cases the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination faces, this civil trial does not threaten to put him in prison as he mounts a comeback White House bid. But the civil fraud case against Mr Trump and his business could undercut his image, cultivated over decades, as a glamorous billionaire who shuttles between elegant resorts and premium golf courses that bear his name.
Judge Engoron has already cancelled business certificates for companies that control large portions of his business, though that order is on hold during appeal. That has earned him fines of $15,000 for twice violating a limited gag order that prevents him from criticising court staff. Mr Trump’s lawyers have chafed at that order and indicated they might use it as the basis for an appeal, but judge Engoron expanded it on Friday to cover them as well.
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