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riversedge

(70,200 posts)
Tue Mar 29, 2022, 09:19 PM Mar 2022

NY attorney general wants subpoena enforced against Trump, eldest children in civil investigation

Source: abc news






The Trumps have asked for the subpoenas to be quashed.


ByAaron Katersky March 29, 2022, 5:11 PM


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The former president and his eldest children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, have asked the Appellate Division’s First Department to quash the subpoenas, arguing they became improper once the Manhattan District Attorney’s office opened a parallel criminal investigation.
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The Trumps have also argued the subpoenas result from an investigation driven by the political animus of New York Attorney General Letitia James, which her office rejected..............................


.........Trump, in a statement last month, blasted the probe following a ruling by Judge Arthur Engoron of the New York State Supreme Court that the Trumps must testify.

"She is doing everything within their corrupt discretion to interfere with my business relationships, and with the political process," he said of James. "It is a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in history -- and remember, I can’t get a fair hearing in New York because of the hatred of me by Judges and the judiciary. It is not possible!"....................

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/ny-attorney-general-subpoena-enforced-trump-eldest-children/story?id=83741940



I have to admit--the Trumps know how to delay any court order. over and over.



PHOTO: In this Feb. 26, 2022, file photo, former President Donald Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Fla.
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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
1. Claiming the "the greatest Witch Hunt in history" is such an incredibly intelligent tactic, I
Tue Mar 29, 2022, 09:35 PM
Mar 2022

don't know how any court could possibly the horror, the terrible horror.

Seriously, they must want to lose by making such meritless claims, not to mention, "Get back to us after you have been burned at the stake in a public plaza!"

Also, can a judge send a pleading back to cure bad grammar?

PatSeg

(47,418 posts)
6. Well, admittedly Trump IS hated in New York
Wed Mar 30, 2022, 09:34 AM
Mar 2022

but it was well earned over the years. The courts have seen far too much of Trump.

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