Former President Trump is seen on newly released video obtained Tuesday by Fox News Digital pleading the Fifth Amendment again and again during a deposition last August. It was just a month before New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a still-ongoing $250 million civil case seeking to drive Trump’s family-run business out of the state.
“This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country,” Trump, wearing a navy suit, red tie and American flag lapel pin, said in his opening statement Aug. 10, 2022.
His deposition under oath in New York City came just days after the FBI raided the former president’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
“There has never been another president or perhaps even another politician who has been persecuted, harassed and in every other way unfairly treated like President Donald J. Trump. What Letitia James has tried to do the last number of years is a disgrace to the legal system and an affront to the New York state taxpayers and a violation of the solemn rights and protections afforded by the United States Constitution,” Trump continues in the roughly 38 minutes of clips of the deposition obtained by Fox News Digital.
TRUMP VOLUNTARILY DISMISSES SECOND LAWSUIT AGAINST NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES
Former President Trump Aug. 10, 2022 during a deposition before New York Attorney General Letitia James.
(New York Attorney General’s Office)
“She developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she even understood or was elected or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willingly produced. We willingly produced these documents. James proclaimed that she, quote, looks forward to going into the office of attorney general every day, suing me and then going home.
“During her campaign, she announced that she was obsessed with, quote, taking me on, taking me on, and that her eyes were set on, quote, Trump Tower. She even assured her supporters as an election promise very strongly that, quote, ‘We’re going to definitely sue him’ before she even knew anything about me. ‘We’re going to be a real pain in his a–,'” Trump said, referring to James. “He’s going to know my name personally, and she claimed I was … an illegitimate president, quote, illegitimate president.
“In her AG speech, she promised to, quote, ‘shine a bright light into every dark corner of Trump’s real estate holdings.’ Shortly thereafter, she vowed…
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