with inflation and all the other problems that this country has, i think it is a disgrace. the $250 million lawsuit was brought against mr trump and his family by the new york attorney general s office. the judge already ruled that mr trump is liable forfraud the trial is now exploring what he ll have to pay in damages. after court, new york attorney general letitia james defended her case, and said mr trump engaged in distractions while on the stand. he rambled. he hurled insults. but we expected that. at the end of the day, the documentary evidence evidence demonstrated that he, in fact, falsely inflated his assets to basically enrich himself and his family. he persistently engaged in fraud. for more on mr trump s day in court, i spoke with our north america correspondent gary o donoghue who s been covering the trial in new york. this really wasn t about the law. if you had any kind of legal strategy in a case where the judges the guy that gets to decide, going out of t
election. the way he responded to that is by creating an alternate universe in which he did not lose the election and the country is paying the price. three times. three times? losing in 2020, the new york attorney general case and now the 34 counts. the attorney general case with the massive penalty. you are right to point it out with the devastating nature of the blow in that case. hundreds of millions of dollars that he owes and now in this criminal case. he does not have the option to do it he did with losing the 2020 election. he does not have the option to say that didn t really happen. let s have an alternate universe in which the penalty did not happen, the liability did not happen and the criminal convictions did not happen. from your sense of how he moves through the world and deals with humiliation and failure, what do you think he has left to do that he can do in response to this that we should be prepared for? is going to blame everybody other than hims