Former President Trump said he averted a “nuclear holocaust” with North Korea and “saved millions of lives” during his time as president, according to his newly released April deposition in his New York civil fraud case.
For nearly seven hours, lawyers with the New York attorney general’s office grilled Trump over his company’s business practices and his children’s roles within the Trump Organization. When asked about how his position changed within the Trump Organization when elected president, Trump said he was “very busy” and considered the presidency “the most important job in the world, saving millions of lives.”
“I think you would have nuclear holocaust, if I didn’t deal with North Korea,” Trump said. “I think you would have a nuclear war, if I weren’t elected. And I think you might have a nuclear war now, if you want to know the truth.”
Trump said his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, both of whom currently serve as executive vice presidents at the Trump organization and are named in the suit, saw their roles change once he came president.
“They became more intensely involved with the company, I was virtually not involved at all,” Trump said. “I rarely — I’d rarely have anything to do with anything having to do with the company.”
The testimony is part of New York Attorney General Letitia James’s (D) lawsuit against Trump, the Trump Organization and two of the former president’s children over allegations of major fraud. Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, was previously included in the lawsuit but later dismissed from it by a state appeals judge.
Trump’s lawyers released Trump’s 479-page deposition transcript Wednesday ahead of a Sept. 22 hearing where a judge could resolve part or all of the lawsuit before it goes to trial in October.
In a separate court document filed Wednesday, James alleges Trump inflated his net worth by as much as $2.2 billion in 2014, and from 2011-21 defrauded lenders, insurers and others.
“By not launching nukes at North Korea, I staved off nuclear holocaust.”
“By not robbing a bank, I successfully foiled a bank robbery”
Such a wannabe mobster thing to say
Total horseshit. He did COST a whole lot of Americans their lives when he indulged in COVID denial, though. What was the death toll on that? A million? It would have been substantially less if he had been responsible and given Americans useful advice, rather than telling them to ingest aquarium cleaner and shine lights up their butts.
Or just didn’t say anything at all.
LMAO. Wasn’t he daring NK with all that rocket man shit?
and comparing
cockbutton sizes
He means he averted one by losing the election in 2020, right?
A) I believe most of the false valuations happened before he became president.
B) It sure didn’t take very much for him to throw his sons under the bus.
Eric was probably happy just to have that interaction. “He NOTICED me! Also, ouch!”
Seriously - how can anybody fail to recognize that Trump is profoundly mentally ill?
Maybe a lot of them are also mentally ill.
Everyone that matters, knows.
There are plenty of people with mental illnesses who are good people and upstanding members of society. Trump, on the other hand, is a toxic cocktail of narcissism, greed, stupidity, amorality, mental illness and evil.
All right, sure, for the sake of argument he is 100% telling the truth. And that proves he’s not guilty … why?
Trump was seriously outmatched by Kim.
it aint even relevant to the case
Which is what makes it even more hilarious
Was that after he ate all the hamberders left over from the Clemson championship dinner?
I remember when he almost caused a nuclear disaster when he wanted to launch nukes into a hurricane. Goddamn, conservatives are dumb as fuck.
Dotard just loves that letter he got from Kim.
I love it when NK propaganda masterfully uses antiquated English vocabulary.
I don’t usually like to give NK credit for anything, but you gotta hand it to them on that one.
Don’t. Mention. Iran.
I believe in my heart of hearts, that he was talking about a shit he didn’t take in a public place.
I wanna see Trump and Kim go golfing together.
In a minefield, preferably.
That exists at the Korean DMZ. There are signs warning not to go after out of bounds balls because of land mines.
Let’s go!
In a plane near Putin.
Will probably happen once he escapes to Russia
“I got an ‘18’ again! You?”
“Somehow, and I don’t know how this happened, I’m usually very, very good, but I can’t say I’ve ever been quite this good, must be all the practice I’ve been having hosting LIV, you know LIV, right? She’s great, fantastic golfer. Anyway, I got a ‘12’.”
