Bret im sorry. I couldnt help it. I will tune. In thank you. Good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, former President Donald Trump says the quarter billion dollars civil Fraud Lawsuit against him is a scam. The former president making the comment as he arrived at the Manhattan Courthouse where the trial began. He is accused of deceiving banks and insurers. No one is above the law. During opening statements, the state argued trump and his family routinely filed inflated financial statements. But trumps team disputes that. Arguing value is subjective. And determined by what someone is willing to pay. Trump argues his brand brings additional value. While Attorney General james claims the former president routinely lies about his net worth. This is disgraceful trial. Put forward by Attorney General who is corrupt. Were going to be here for months with a judge already made up his mind. Its ridiculous ruled trump and others including his adult sons eric and don
Heres the story. Martha good afternoon. Im Martha Maccallum at fox news Head Quarters in New York City where the story is trump. Trump tower and the a. G. Who promised that she would get him if she was elected. Shes made her move today in court. The former president accused in this civil case that could cost him 250 million. The Attorney General, Letitia James that vowed that she would sue the former president and that she would be a real pain to him is following through on that. She says he overvalued his property when he estimated his different real estate holdings. The former president insists hes done nothing wrong. Watch this. Its a disgraceful trial put forward by an Attorney General that is corrupt. We have murders going all over the city, all over the state at a record level. Its an epidemic and their waste their time on this with banks. They got all their money back. Donald trump and other defendants have committed fraud. Justice will prevail. Matt whitaker and pam bondi both
We have a rogue judge who ruled the properties are worth a tiny fraction, 1 100th, a tiny fraction of what they actually are. We have a racist Attorney General who is a horror show who ran on the basis she would get trump before she even knew anything about me. She used this to run for governor. She failed in her attempt to run for governor. Virtually no following. She came back and said now i will go back to get trump again. This is what we have is a scam and sham. Just so you know, my Financial Statements are phenomenal. They are actually less in terms of the numbers used than the actual net worth. The actual neath worth is substantially nor. No bank was affected or hurt and dont know why they have to be involved. They have so testified. They cant believe that they are involved because they were paid back on time, there were no defaults, no problems, and it was like a perfect client. Meantime people are being murdered all over the sidewalks of new york. There was no victim here. The
Former President Donald Trump has shown up in person for His Civil Trial Lawsuit in new york. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. New York Attorney general Le Tisha James wants trump on the hook and ban him from doing any business in new york. Who is deciding the future of a former president and his real estate empire . All judge, no jury. Thats him on the right. The judge already found trump liable for fraud this week. Now he begins resolving the remaining claims of the suit and decides the monetary damages. The former president tore into both the a. G. And the judge just before the trial began last hour. Yeah, he talked. We have a racist Attorney General who is a horror show who ran on the basis she was going to get trump before she even knew anything about me. This is what we have. Its a scam, a sham. Harris his legal team also eager to talk about the motivation of this. What were witnessing is Election Interference of somebody who is leading in the polls the more