NY attorney general fires back at Trump's defense of financial statements

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

(Reuters) - New York's attorney general on Wednesday pounced on former President Donald Trump's defense of company's financial statements, saying the five-page statement Trump issued a day earlier contradicted a court filing by his attorneys.

"It is not unusual for parties to a legal proceeding to disagree about the facts," the attorney general's office wrote in a letter filed in New York state court. "But it is truly rare for a party to publicly disagree with statements submitted by his own attorneys in a signed pleading -- let alone one day after the pleading was filed."

Attorney General Letitia James is conducting a probe into whether the Trumps inflated real estate values to obtain bank loans, and reduced values to lower tax bills.

Trump's attorneys repeatedly stated that he did not know enough to respond to allegations of inaccurate valuations. But the former president's five-page statement got into detail about possible discrepancies, implying that he had more knowledge than his lawyers said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ny-attorney-general-fires-back-222452182.html

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. I wonder if his lawyers recommended this?

I'm betting the political brain-trust hatched this response without understanding the legal implications.

[Sanity Claws]

2. This would be good cause for the lawyers to quit representing 45

It is clear to the attorneys that he is lying to them and that they are unable to sign court filings in good faith.

[BigmanPigman]

3. He is a boob extextraordinaire.

Keep it up Donny, you fucking moron.

[Joinfortmill]

8. Rofl

[WillUSAF]

4. I'm curious

after his long public history with the way he treats lawyers, who would in their right mind would take him on as a client??

[Deuxcents]

7. I keep thinking that

[PoliticAverse]

5. Less retorting more indicting please. n/t

[Botany]

6. "Trump's attorneys repeatedly stated that he did not know enough to respond ....

.... to allegations of inaccurate valuations."


But officer I just didn't know enough about bank robbery to know that robbing that bank was wrong.

Keep talking FG just keep talking.

[argyl]

9. Ms. James is really after The Dotard and his family.

And as the AG of the state where he did most of his dirty business, she was a lot to work with.

And as a state AG no feds can threaten her.

[argyl]

10. And this BS about him being too stupid to know what was being done in his name is just that.

I have a Collings guitar that as a personal possession isn't subject to taxation but if it were and I told the IRS that my perfect $5,000 acoustic guitar was only worth $50 for tax purposes they'd be all over my ass.
So you can lie about a 250 million discrepancy and they look the other way but a regular guy like me would feel the full power of the IRS pronto.

And for you guitar aficionados, yep, they're every bit as good(make that superb) as you've heard.