Former U.S. President and 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump attends the “Get Out the Vote” rally in Conway, South Carolina on February 10, 2024.
- The former US president is scheduled to address supporters at a campaign rally in Michigan on Saturday.
- This comes after a New York state judge ruled that he must pay $354.9 million in fines for fraudulently inflating his net worth to defraud lenders. .
- New York Attorney General Letitia James also accused President Trump of inflating his net worth by $3.6 billion a year for 10 years.
For the first time since a New York state judge ruled that Donald Trump must pay a $354.9 million fine for fraudulently inflating his net worth to defraud lenders, He will address supporters at a campaign rally on Saturday.
The former president was scheduled to attend a campaign rally in Michigan and speak at the same time as his final rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Nikki Haley, who was scheduled to hold an event in South Carolina.
On Saturday morning, Haley wasted no time in going after Trump following Friday's ruling that gave Trump another legal setback in a civil case that jeopardized his real estate empire.
President Trump also faces four state and federal criminal trials, including one scheduled to begin March 25 in New York on charges of hush money payments to porn stars. This means Trump will become the first former US president to go on trial on criminal charges.
Haley has frequently said that Trump is in “turmoil” and that his myriad legal issues prevent him from being an effective president or candidate.
“He's scheduled to be in court in March and April, and he's scheduled to be in court in May and June,” Haley told Fox News. “He's said he spends more time in court than he does campaigning. “It was,” he said.
Trump lashed out at Friday's ruling in posts on his social media platforms, after Judge Arthur Engoron also barred him from serving as an officer or director of a New York company for three years.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James said Trump and his family of companies inflated Trump's net worth by $3.6 billion a year over a decade to trick bankers into offering him better loan terms. He was blaming.
In posts on his social media platforms, President Trump called Engoron “crooked”, James “corrupt” and the lawsuit against him “election interference” and a “witch hunt.”
Trump has recently won the nomination contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, moving him closer to winning the Republican presidential nomination and raising the possibility of a rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden in the general election. There is.
President Trump was scheduled to attend a convention for sneaker fans in Philadelphia ahead of a rally in Michigan, where the Republican nomination will be held on February 27 and March 2.
Haley sees no clear path to the Republican nomination and has refused to resign. She is making her last stand in her home state of South Carolina, which will hold its primary on February 24, but is lagging far behind Trump in the polls.
On Friday, Haley also attacked Trump for not commenting on the death of Russia's most prominent opposition leader, Alexei Navalny.
Russian prison authorities announced that Navalny, 47, died on Friday at the Polar Wolf penal colony in the Arctic. Western countries, including Biden, condemned the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Western leaders did not cite the evidence.
Haley accused President Trump of collusion with President Putin and other authoritarian leaders.
“People who can't call themselves dictators are a problem,” Haley told CNN on Friday.
