Trump news today: Ex-president’s first statement since accountant cut ties
Stormy Daniels obliquely denies having written statement on Trump affair
Former president Donald Trump has issued his first statement since his accounting firm Mazars USA cut ties.
The former president’s longtime accounting firm dropped him as a client, writing in a court filing that a decade’s worth of Donald Trump’s financial statements could no longer be relied upon.
On Wednesday Mr Trump said: “We have a great company with fantastic assets that are unique, extremely valuable and, in many cases, far more valuable than what was listed in our Financial Statements.”
He added that Mazars has cut ties with him due to “vicious intimidation tactics” by the New York Attorney General and the District Attorney.
The president’s company papers are at the centre of a New York investigation into his affairs, one he has decried as a political witch hunt.
Meanwhile a US congressional committee is preparing to investigate Donald Trump’s handling of administration documents after 15 boxes of records were transferred from his Mar-a-Lago residence.
Trump links Chinatown murder to probe into his taxes
Former president Donald Trump has brought up the murder of a Chinatown woman as he lashed out at the New York District Attorney and Attorney General for allegedly harassing his accounting firm Mazars USA that severed ties with him.
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Sravasti Dasgupta16 February 2022 06:59
Trump Organization reinstated in DC AG’s case against Trump’s inaugural committee
A court in Washington DC has reinstated the Trump Organization as a defendant in the DC attorney general Karl Racine’s case against former president Donald Trump’s inaugural committee.
On Monday, DC Superior Court Judge Yvonne Williams reversed an earlier decision to dismiss the case against the Trump Organization.
The court is expected to set a trial schedule on Thursday. The case accuses Mr Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Committee of misusing non-profit funds to pay for event space at the Trump Hotel along with other transactions.
Through the case Mr Racine also alleges that the committee paid a debt owed by the Trump Organization.
“The case will now proceed to trial fully intact as it was originally brought,” said a spokesperson for Mr Racine to CNN.
Donald Trump’s organisation owns the Turnberry gold course (Andrew Milligan/PA)
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Sravasti Dasgupta16 February 2022 06:48
Trump’s first statement since accounting firm cut ties
Former president Donald Trump has issued his first statement since his accounting firm Mazars USA cut ties.
On Wednesday Mr Trump said: “We have a great company with fantastic assets that are unique, extremely valuable and, in many cases, far more valuable than what was listed in our Financial Statements.
“Anyone with even a minor degree of financial acumen would recognise that these Statements of Financial Condition, prepared for the Trump…
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