Former President Trump said he averted a ā€œnuclear holocaustā€ with North Korea and ā€œsaved millions of livesā€ during his time as president, according to his newly released April deposition in his New York civil fraud case.

For nearly seven hours, lawyers with the New York attorney generalā€™s office grilled Trump over his companyā€™s business practices and his childrenā€™s roles within the Trump Organization. When asked about how his position changed within the Trump Organization when elected president, Trump said he was ā€œvery busyā€ and considered the presidency ā€œthe most important job in the world, saving millions of lives.ā€

ā€œI think you would have nuclear holocaust, if I didnā€™t deal with North Korea,ā€ Trump said. ā€œI think you would have a nuclear war, if I werenā€™t elected. And I think you might have a nuclear war now, if you want to know the truth.ā€

Trump said his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, both of whom currently serve as executive vice presidents at the Trump organization and are named in the suit, saw their roles change once he came president.

ā€œThey became more intensely involved with the company, I was virtually not involved at all,ā€ Trump said. ā€œI rarely ā€” Iā€™d rarely have anything to do with anything having to do with the company.ā€

The testimony is part of New York Attorney General Letitia Jamesā€™s (D) lawsuit against Trump, the Trump Organization and two of the former presidentā€™s children over allegations of major fraud. Trumpā€™s daughter, Ivanka, was previously included in the lawsuit but later dismissed from it by a state appeals judge.

Trumpā€™s lawyers released Trumpā€™s 479-page deposition transcript Wednesday ahead of a Sept. 22 hearing where a judge could resolve part or all of the lawsuit before it goes to trial in October.

In a separate court document filed Wednesday, James alleges Trump inflated his net worth by as much as $2.2 billion in 2014, and from 2011-21 defrauded lenders, insurers and others.

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    1 year ago

    Total horseshit. He did COST a whole lot of Americans their lives when he indulged in COVID denial, though. What was the death toll on that? A million? It would have been substantially less if he had been responsible and given Americans useful advice, rather than telling them to ingest aquarium cleaner and shine lights up their butts.