Former President Donald Trump wildly ranted on Tuesday calling his civil trial a “rigged” and fumed over everything from New York Attorney General Letitia James to his Florida home Mar-a-Lago before being slapped with a gag order.
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Former President Donald Trump was issued a gag order Tuesday after a day of wild ranting and social media posts made during his Manhattan civil fraud trial.
The four-time indicted ex-chief executive could face 30 days in jail if he’s found to violate the order, handed down after Trump charged the trial was “rigged” and fumed over everything from New York Attorney General Letitia James to his Florida home Mar-a-Lago.
On the second day of Trump’s latest trial, the embattled 45th president appeared to try and flip the script by attempting to use the legal process as his own soap box from which he cried injustice.
From just before 10 a.m. to late into the afternoon, Trump repeatedly passed through the hefty wooden doors to the Paul G. Feinman Ceremonial courtroom inside of 60 Centre St. to plead his case in the court of public opinion to a legion of awaiting press photographers and journalists.
“This trial is a rigged trial, it’s a fraudulent trial. The attorney general is a fraud, and we have to expose her as that,” Trump claimed before an array of camera flashes.
The trial first opened on Monday and sees New York Attorney General Letitia James arguing that Trump warped business deals by vastly inflating asset valuations on financial statements, including his real estate properties. The attorney general has brought a $250 million suit against Trump, claiming that he inflated the assets knowingly and purposefully.
“Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida being worth $18 million when in fact it is much closer to $1.5 billion,” Trump claimed in a bizarre tirade. “Because it is a fraudulent number she is given—many of which, Mar-a-Lago is just one example that, we have other examples that are…
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