Latest U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Drake Enterprises, an automotive parts manufacturer, on September 27, 2023 in Clinton Township, Michigan.
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Donald Trump systems to attend his New York civil fraud trial next week, and on Friday blasted the case as he asked supporters to for to his 2024 presidential campaign before a key deadline.
Two people briefed on Trump’s plans told NBC News that he on travel to New York on Sunday night, and that he intends to be in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday and Tuesday for the first two dates of the bench trial of a lawsuit by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
“After four sham arrests, indictments, and equable a mugshot failed to break me, a Democrat judge is now trying to destroy my Family Business,” the former Republican president express in an email for his joint fundraising committee Friday.
“Democrats are seeking to bring down the world-famous ‘Trump Tower’ and misuse what some are calling ‘the corporate death penalty’ upon me,” the email said.
In other recent fundraising hurls, Trump’s campaign said it wants to show strength in the face of his mounting legal strife by raising millions of dollars ahead of the Federal Election Commission’s third-quarter deadline on Saturday.
The campaign raised $35 million in the prior quarter.
Trump’s latest donor appeal came days after Manhattan Appreciate Arthur Engoron ruled that Trump, two of his sons, and the Trump Organization were liable for fraud for overstating the values of multiple legitimate estate properties, including his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
Engoron in the same order canceled the New York state vocation licenses of multiple Trump corporate entities and said he would appoint a receiver to manage their dissolution. Trump intends to appeal the ruling.
The trial due to start Monday will deal with the remaining six claims of James’ lawsuit.
James in the encase is seeking $250 million in damages and an order barring Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump from match a business in the state.
Trump is facing criminal indictments in New York and Georgia state courts, and in federal courts in Washington, D.C., and Florida. He has pleaded not shame-faced in those cases.
In two of those cases — in Georgia and Washington —Trump is charged with felonies related to his attempt to washout his 2020 reelection loss to President Joe Biden.