Donald Trump has posted on Truth Social, “Just arrived in Manhattan for a deposition in front of New York State’s RACIST, TRUMP HATING Attorney General, Letitia ‘Peekaboo’ James, in another unjust & ridiculous persecution of The 45th President of the United States. I built a GREAT & prosperous company, employed thousands of people, built magnificent structures all over the World, but particularly in New York, & now have to prove it to this LOWLIFE who campaigned on a “I will get Trump” platform, even before knowing anything about me!”
Former President Donald Trump was recently indicted. The controversy sparked around the hush money payment that Cohen admitted that he made to Stormy Daniels during the fall of Trump’s 2016 White House bid to keep her from coming forward about an alleged affair she had with the then-candidate. Trump has denied the affair. Previously, TMZ reported that Daniels was experiencing the impact of Trump’s potential impending arrest and reportedly strengthening her security after receiving multiple threats.
Trump sued his onetime personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen on Wednesday, seeking at least $500 million for alleged breaches of contract and “unjust enrichment.”
The civil suit, filed in federal court in Miami, accused Cohen of “spreading falsehoods” about Trump, violating his attorney-client relationship, and breaching a confidentiality agreement he had signed with the Trump Organization.
The allegations against Cohen, whose once-close relationship with Trump imploded in 2018, come as the disbarred lawyer has become a key witness against the former president in a criminal case in Manhattan.
Trump, the first ex-president to face criminal charges, pleaded not guilty earlier this month to 34 counts of falsifying business records in that case. It centers on hush money payments made before the 2016 presidential election, which Cohen facilitated for Trump.
The famously litigious former president has previously been accused of using the courts as a cudgel against his adversaries.
Alejandro Brito, Trump’s attorney in the case, referred CNBC’s questions about the timing of the new lawsuit against Cohen to a spokesman for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. The spokesman said in a statement that the lawsuit and Cohen’s alleged wrongdoings “stand for themselves.”
The complaint alleged Cohen’s fiduciary obligations owed to Trump “survive the attorney-client relationship and Defendant’s disbarment and are still in effect today.”
