Lawyers are set to grill Donald Trump in Manhattan over what Letitia James has alleged is a pattern of financial misstatements, a source said.
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Donald Trump is scheduled to sit for his long-delayed, court-ordered deposition Wednesday morning in the New York attorney general's inquiry into his Manhattan-based empire of golf resorts and real estate, Insider has learned.
Trump will be grilled in person in Manhattan on what New York's attorney general, Letitia James, has alleged is a decade-long pattern of financial misstatements on documents used by the Trump Organization to win hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks and bank loans.
The deposition was confirmed to Insider by a person with knowledge of the timing. Not long after Insider's story published, Trump suggested on his social-media platform, Truth Social, that the deposition would go ahead Wednesday.
It will be the latest in a quick succession of major legal hurdles this week for the former president.
On Monday, FBI agents searched Trump's home and office at his waterfront Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. On Tuesday, a federal appeals court panel ruled that Congress is entitled to Trump's tax returns.
The New York attorney general has sought since January to question Trump under oath about his financial documents. His original subpoena had ordered him to appear before the attorney general on January 7.
Trump's lawyers fought the subpoena in court for more than six months but lost in both state Supreme Court and in the First Department Appellate Division, both in Manhattan.
As a result of those court losses, the former president and his eldest son and daughter — Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump — had been scheduled to be deposed on July 20, 21, and 22. But those dates were delayed with the attorney general's consent because of Ivana Trump's death on July 14.
Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump — both of whom have served as Trump Organization executive vice presidents — sat for their depositions last week.
Their brother Eric Trump, also a vice president for the company, invoked his Fifth Amendment right more than 500 times when he sat for a James deposition in October 2020.
