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Sam Levine

Trump is ‘toast’ in New York fraud trial, says former Watergate prosecutor

Donald Trump outside court
Donald Trump testified on Monday in the trial in which the New York attorney general is suing him for fraudulently inflating the value of business assets to secure more favorable terms on loans. Photograph: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images

Donald Trump is “toast” in the civil fraud trial involving his business empire and put himself in an incredibly bad position when he agreed to testify in person after previously invoking his fifth amendment rights against self-incrimination, Nick Akerman, a former Watergate prosecutor, told CNN on Wednesday.

“Basically at this point, Donald Trump is toast,” said Akerman, who was an assistant special prosecutor on the 1970s team that investigated President Richard Nixon and top aides for their involvement in the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel and subsequent revelation of other nefarious political activities. “I mean he is basically going to be found to be a liar by the judge.”

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