the lawyers reading this and being an attorney and trying to have to defend this page-by-page, number-by-number, asset-by-asset, property-by-property, so we ll see. that was a mouthful, don, you were absolutely right. enjoy yourself. see you later. this is don lemon tonight and this really hasn t been a good 24 hours for donald trump. in large part because of this. but first off because of his hand picked special master basically told him to put up or shut up. now a federal appeals court is calling out his legal team for refusing to provide a shred of evidence for his claims that he declassified documents found in the search of mar-a-lago, so they re allowing the justice department to continue looking at those documents, upending a trial judge s order that the review be blocked, or block the review. and first on cnn, a source says that ginni thomas, a conservative activist, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, agreeing to talk to the january 6th committee in
Business and the trump organization itself are named in this lawsuit by the new york attorney at law, who s accusing them of massive fraud over more than a decade. specifically she says the trumps and their company made scores of fraudulent, false, and misleading representations about the value of their properties, all to deceive people who were giving them loans or insurance or who were tax officials, don. so, tom, give us some examples. show us exactly how he was allegedly lying about the value of his properties. well, this is where it really gets interesting. let s start in new york with his own apartment in trump tower. trump said it had 30,000 square feet of space in it. this lawsuit says, no, it was about a third of that, 11,000 square feet up there. and trump claimed it was worth about $327 million.
The a.g. says no way. no apartment in the city has ever sold in anything like that. how about his mar-a-lago club in florida? the lawsuit says trump claimed it was worth as much as $739 million. when, according to the lawsuit, it was actually worth about $75 million. his golf courses, same story there. for example, the lawsuit says trump bought one course out there for $5 million in 2012. and the very next year claimed it was worth $62 million. on and on and on it goes of the former president took the feift hundreds of type when he was asked about this under oath. after the lawsuit was revealed, one of his lawyers said today s filing is not focused on the facts or the law it is solely focused on advancing the attorney general s political agenda. absolutely no wrongdoing has
So like i said, this really hasn t been a good day for donald trump on the legal front, and the monster civil fraud lawsuit against him by letitia james may be what he cares about the most because she als that the trump organization, the company that he put his name on is a giant fraud. i want to bring in meeichael cohen, author of the upcoming book revenge, how donald trump weaponized the department of justice against his critics and host of the mea culpa podcast. you tried to tell us. i did. five years i ve been shouting it from the rooftops.
Supreme court justice clarence thomas, agreeing to talk to the january 6th committee in the coming weeks. and don t forget that massive lawsuit against the former president, three of his adult children and the trump organization alleging that their whole business is essentially a giant fraud. that s what these documents say. that s what they allege. letitia james, the attorney general of new york, says that the fraud was, and i quote here, approved at the highest levels of the trump organization, including by mr. trump himself. she alleges that eric trump, ivanka trump appear donald trump jr. knowingly participated in the fraudulent schemes. she says trump and his company lied more than 200 times about the value of his assets, and she is seeking a quarter of a billion dollars, that s billion with a b, in allegedly ill-gotten funds as well as seeking to bar the trumps from ever running a business in the