Trump claims financial statements at heart of $250m fraud trial are ‘worthless’
by Dominic Rushe and Maya Yang in New York from on (#6G551)
Former president takes stand in New York Trump Organization trial as judge asks lawyer to control your client'
Donald Trump took the stand in a Manhattan federal courthouse on Monday and angrily claimed the financial statements at the heart of his $250m civil fraud lawsuit were worthless" and the trial was a political witch-hunt".
In a day of sometimes heated, sometimes meandering testimony, Trump maintained he had done nothing wrong and accused his prosecutors of playing politics. We sit here all day - it's election interference because you want to keep me in the courthouse!" said Trump.
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