Willie R. Tubbs, FISM News
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Former President Donald Trump will return to Manhattan Thursday, this time in relation to the civil suit New York Attorney General Letitia James filed against him last September.
Trump will be deposed at James’ Lower Manhattan offices a little more than a week after having visited the borough to be arraigned in connection to criminal charges filed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Perhaps owing to the criminal nature of the latter case, Trump has been focused far more on his ongoing battle with Bragg than lingering bad will with James, Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis, and Department of Justice special prosecutor Jack Smith, who are also mulling filing charges against Trump.
Monday on Truth Social, though, Trump offered a general rebuke of all of his legal foes.
“The only reason I have these absolutely ridiculous investigations against me, headed up by racists, lunatics, and radical left maniacs, is for purposes of election interference,” Trump wrote in all-caps. “It will be harder for the Democrats to cheat like they did in 2020, so they are going right to the old Soviet Union playbook and using the DOJ, FBI & others in ‘justice’ to interfere in our once sacred elections. we’ve got to swamp these cheaters, and we will win!”
Trump has long argued that James is a racist who is perverting the law in order to “get” the former president.
Last week, during a brief-but-heated speech at Mar-a-Lago, Trump referred to James as a “racist in reverse who also campaigned on ‘I will get Trump.’”
James has largely avoided commenting on the Trump case.
This will mark the second time that Trump has been deposed by James’ office. During the first deposition, which happened last summer before James filed the civil suit, Trump primarily told opposing attorneys that he had nothing to tell them.
He invoked his Fifth Amendment rights some 400 times. The expectation is that Trump will offer similar responses to state prosecutor questions on Thursday.
There have been no reports of protests in relation to this Trump visit to the Big Apple, and the former president will in all likelihood spend only a short amount of time in the city.