Banana Republic! he cried
The New York Times is running live updates this morning as TFG faces a deposition in New York City by attorneys from New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office. They mean to question him on Trump Organization business practices.
One key question this morning, CNN asks, is whether Donald Trump will answer questions or invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. That may depend on whether Trump takes the advice of his cut-rate attorneys or lies away under oath. Place your bets.
As I type this, reports say Donald Trump’s security detail at Trump Tower is preparing to transport him to his rendezvous with accountability.
The stakes for Mr. Trump are uncommonly high. While he has sat for numerous depositions over the years, he fought for months to avoid the testimony this week, which could shape the outcome of the investigation into the former president and his family real estate business, the Trump Organization.
The deposition comes at a legally perilous moment for Mr. Trump. Two days ago, while he was at his golf club in New Jersey, the F.B.I. searched his Florida home as part of an investigation into sensitive material that Mr. Trump took when he left the White House.
He has denied wrongdoing and lashed out at the F.B.I. search as “an assault” that “could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries.” He has also called the investigation by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, a politically motivated witch hunt.
He repeated his criticism on his Truth Social account. “In New York City tonight. Seeing racist N.Y.S. Attorney General tomorrow, for a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. history!” he wrote. “My great company, and myself, are being attacked from all sides. Banana Republic!”
See, nobody gets to turn the United States of America into a banana-republic dictatorship except Donald. He came close before he left office in 2021. He wants a do-over in 2024.
“If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier… as long as I’m the dictator,” Trump told reporters.
No, wait. That was George W. Bush.
Stay tuned.
Update:
Hi-ho, the derry-o
The rat takes the Fifth
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