Trump blasts upcoming New York civil fraud trial to lift 2024 marketing campaign money

Donald Trump on Friday blasted his upcoming New York civil fraud trial and his 4 pending legal cases as he requested supporters to donate to his 2024 presidential marketing campaign earlier than a key finance deadline.

“After 4 sham arrests, indictments, and even a mugshot failed to interrupt me, a Democrat choose is now attempting to destroy my Household Enterprise,” Trump stated in an electronic mail for his joint fundraising committee.

“Democrats are searching for to convey down the world-famous ‘Trump Tower’ and impose what some are calling ‘the company demise penalty’ upon me,” the e-mail stated. “The trial might start as early as Monday.”

In different current fundraising pitches, the previous Republican president’s marketing campaign has famous that it seeks to make a present of energy within the face of his mounting authorized strife by elevating hundreds of thousands of {dollars} earlier than the Federal Election Fee’s third-quarter deadline on Saturday.

The marketing campaign raised $35 million within the prior quarter.

Trump’s newest donor enchantment got here days after a choose discovered Trump, two of his sons, and the Trump Group chargeable for fraud for overstating the values of a number of actual property properties, together with his Mar-a-Lago membership in Florida.

Engoron in the identical order canceled the New York state enterprise licenses of a number of Trump company entities and stated he would appoint a receiver to handle their dissolution. Trump plans to enchantment the ruling.

Trump and the opposite defendants are because of stand trial beginning Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court docket on the remaining claims in a lawsuit by New York Lawyer Normal Letitia James.

James is searching for $250 million in damages and an order barring Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump from working a enterprise within the state.

Trump is going through legal indictments in New York and Georgia state courts, and in federal courts in Washington, D.C., and Florida. He has pleaded not responsible in these circumstances.

In two of these circumstances — in Georgia and Washington —Trump is charged with felonies associated to his try and reverse his 2020 reelection loss to President Joe Biden.