Trump releases 909-word statement complaining about New York's criminal investigations into his business
Sonam Sheth
May 19, 2021, 2:22 PM
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Former President Donald Trump released a lengthy statement on Wednesday complaining about New York's increasing investigative scrutiny of the Trump Organization.
The 909-word statement came after the state attorney general's office told CNN that it was joining the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in its criminal investigation into the company.
"We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature," Fabien Levy, a spokesman for New York Attorney General Tish James, told CNN. "We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan D.A. We have no additional comment at this time."
Trump in his statement said he'd learned "through leaks in the mainstream media" that the "Democrat New York Attorney General has 'informed' my organization that their 'investigation' is no longer just a civil matter but also potentially a 'criminal' investigation working with the Manhattan District Attorney's office."
He went on to describe James as someone who "literally campaigned on prosecuting Donald Trump before she even knew anything about me" and pointed to several statements she made criticizing his administration and business dealings while she ran for office.
"The Attorney General made each of these statements, not after having had an opportunity to actually look at the facts, but BEFORE she was even elected, BEFORE she had even seen a shred of evidence," he said. "This is something that happens in failed third world countries, not the United States."
"If you can run for a prosecutor's office pledging to take out your enemies, and be elected to that job by partisan voters who wish to enact political retribution, then we are no longer a free constitutional democracy," Trump, who frequently called for the prosecution and imprisonment of his political opponents while in office, added.
The former president also criticized his former lawyer and longtime fixer Michael Cohen as a "lying, discredited low life" and accused the Manhattan District Attorney's Office of using Cohen's congressional testimony as the basis for its criminal investigation into the Trump Organization.
He also falsely suggested that Cohen was serving a three-year prison sentence for "lying and other events unrelated to me." In fact, he's serving time for multiple felonies, including wire fraud, tax evasion, and campaign-finance violations that Cohen said he carried out at Trump's direction.
The former president also accused New York of ignoring issues it has no control over, like the influx of migrants at the US-Mexico border, and of trying to destroy "the political fortunes of President Donald J. Trump and the almost 75 million people who voted for him."
"After prosecutorial efforts the likes of which nobody has ever seen before, they failed to stop me in Washington, so they turned it over to New York to do their dirty work," Trump said, likely referring to the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and related criminal inquiries.
He added: "If these prosecutors focused on real issues, crime would be obliterated, and New York would be great and free again!"
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Sonam Sheth
May 19, 2021, 2:22 PM
Trump releases 909-word statement complaining about New York's criminal investigations into his business
In the longest statement Trump has released since leaving office, he ranted about investigations and accused prosecutors of political persecution.
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Former President Donald Trump released a lengthy statement on Wednesday complaining about New York's increasing investigative scrutiny of the Trump Organization.
The 909-word statement came after the state attorney general's office told CNN that it was joining the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in its criminal investigation into the company.
"We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature," Fabien Levy, a spokesman for New York Attorney General Tish James, told CNN. "We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan D.A. We have no additional comment at this time."
Trump in his statement said he'd learned "through leaks in the mainstream media" that the "Democrat New York Attorney General has 'informed' my organization that their 'investigation' is no longer just a civil matter but also potentially a 'criminal' investigation working with the Manhattan District Attorney's office."
He went on to describe James as someone who "literally campaigned on prosecuting Donald Trump before she even knew anything about me" and pointed to several statements she made criticizing his administration and business dealings while she ran for office.
"The Attorney General made each of these statements, not after having had an opportunity to actually look at the facts, but BEFORE she was even elected, BEFORE she had even seen a shred of evidence," he said. "This is something that happens in failed third world countries, not the United States."
"If you can run for a prosecutor's office pledging to take out your enemies, and be elected to that job by partisan voters who wish to enact political retribution, then we are no longer a free constitutional democracy," Trump, who frequently called for the prosecution and imprisonment of his political opponents while in office, added.
The former president also criticized his former lawyer and longtime fixer Michael Cohen as a "lying, discredited low life" and accused the Manhattan District Attorney's Office of using Cohen's congressional testimony as the basis for its criminal investigation into the Trump Organization.
He also falsely suggested that Cohen was serving a three-year prison sentence for "lying and other events unrelated to me." In fact, he's serving time for multiple felonies, including wire fraud, tax evasion, and campaign-finance violations that Cohen said he carried out at Trump's direction.
The former president also accused New York of ignoring issues it has no control over, like the influx of migrants at the US-Mexico border, and of trying to destroy "the political fortunes of President Donald J. Trump and the almost 75 million people who voted for him."
"After prosecutorial efforts the likes of which nobody has ever seen before, they failed to stop me in Washington, so they turned it over to New York to do their dirty work," Trump said, likely referring to the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and related criminal inquiries.
He added: "If these prosecutors focused on real issues, crime would be obliterated, and New York would be great and free again!"
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I am pretty sure that was an off the record discussion.
