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Sep 18, 2020 · The video shows Trump parrying with the lawyer for the plaintiffs, Jason Forge, over various issues, including false statements made by Trump University employees and Trump’s own...
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- Mother Jones
- Trump’s Memory: Best in The World?
- The Name Game
- Trump Can’T Name One Instructor
- “I’ve Heard Good Things”
- Trump Praises Hillary Clinton
- Trump’s Fraud Flip-Flop
- Trump Won’T Call A Lie A Lie
- Another Lie Trump Won’T Acknowledge
- Doing “Well” by Losing
When the written transcript of the deposition video was made public, media attention focused on an exchange about Trump’s memory. Forge had asked him to evaluate his own memory, and Trump said, “My memory’s good.” Forge reminded Trump that he had once described it as “one of the all-time great memories,” and Trump kept calling it “good” before ackn...
Trump downplaying his powers of recall—or no longer bragging that he had the greatest memory in the world—was an important moment during this deposition because he frequently maintained throughout this session that he could not remember details about Trump University, citing the passage of time. In one stretch, Forge presented Trump with a list of ...
Trump did insist that Trump University had “a lot of very good instructors.” Yet he couldn’t identify a single one.
When Forge asked Trump whether he had any direct personal knowledge that the instructors at Trump University were “good,” Trump responded with a common Trumpism: “I’ve heard good things.”
One line of questioning seemed to particularly annoy Trump. Forge cited Trump’s previous praise of Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, Rick Perry, and George Pataki—politicians he now was deriding, as he campaigned against them. The lawyer pointed out that when Trump was queried about this in a recent interview he had explained that he had previously made p...
Next, Forge tried to trap Trump with Trump’s own words. He cited a book Trump had written in which Trump declared, “The education industry is delivering less for more money and claiming no ground has been lost. It’s fraud, pure and simple.” Forge asked Trump, “Would you agree that when educators deliver less than promised for more money and claim t...
In several instances during the deposition, Trump dismissed false statements made by Trump University instructors. Asked by Forge about a script that had been sent to instructors advising them to tell prospective students that they had dinner with Trump and discussed real estate with him—though the instructors had not dined or chatted with him—Trum...
In a similar vein, Trump was asked about a Trump University instructor who had been told to say—falsely—that Trump had “personally picked” him for the position. Trump conceded that he had not selected this instructor, but he refused to acknowledge that this instructor had made a false statement. Trump repeatedly said that the person he had chosen t...
During one exchange, Trump asserted that he did “very well” in another lawsuit—though he had actually lost. Trump had sued journalist Tim O’Brien for libel after O’Brien wrote in his 2005 book, TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald, that Trump was no billionaire and, instead, worth between $150 million and $250 million. Trump at the time claimed...
Five years after Donald Trump was deposed in a fraud case against the failed Trump University, a video of the session has finally emerged. The footage, which runs to six hours, shows the...
Jan 20, 2024 · Months before Donald Trump’s defiant turn as a witness at his New York civil fraud trial, the former U.S. president came face-to-face with the state attorney general who is suing him when...
Jan 19, 2024 · Donald Trump testified last April at the New York attorney general’s Manhattan office, across the street from a skyscraper labeled “The Trump Building” in gold letters. Letitia James’ office released the video of the closed-door deposition on Friday.
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Feb 1, 2023 · Newly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.
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- Graham Kates
2 days ago · Last week, Trump’s lawyers asked New York Judge Arthur Engoron – who ordered the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to pay nearly half a billion dollars in a judgment earlier this ...
