Reporters caught former president Donald Trump outside the courtroom in New York City where he’s on trial for financial fraud in his real estate company. “Mr. Trump,” one asked, “are you looking forward to testifying today?”
“I am,” he replied. “So, while Israel is being attacked, while Ukraine is being attacked, while inflation is eating our country alive, I'm down here.”
He went on to characterize the trial as “ridiculous” and “election interference” and emphasized that he’s leading the polls “all over the place.”
He called New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is initiating the lawsuit against The Trump Organization and is New York’s first Black attorney general, “a racist attorney general who made some terrible statements.” This echoes attacks he has made against James on his Truth Social account, which James has described as “void of any facts or any evidence.”
A trial like this, Trump said, “takes place in third-world countries and banana republics, and nobody [in the United States] has ever seen that.” He concluded by saying he believes, “in the meantime, the people of the country understand it. They see it. And they don't like it. They don't like it because it's political warfare, as you would call it, or political lawfare.”
