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Former President Donald Trump is holding a press conference at Trump Tower in New York Thursday afternoon.
Earlier Thursday morning, Trump’s lawyers appeared before a New York Appeals Court and urged them to throw out Attorney General Letitia James’ civil fraud case, in which Trump had been hit with an enormous fine that has swelled to a whopping $489 million.
James accused Trump of misrepresenting the value of his property assets. However, Trump’s attorneys pointed out there were no victims and no complaints in the case.
According to multiple reports, at least some of the judges on the appeals court seemed to question the enormity of the fine against Trump, although they are not expected to rule on the case before the November election.
From ABC News:
Seven months after a trial judge fined Donald Trump $454 million for business frauds that the judge said “shock the conscience,” a New York appeals court appeared skeptical Thursday of some of the arguments underpinning the New York attorney general’s case against the former president.
A panel of five judges at New York’s Appellate Division, First Department heard Trump’s appeal and peppered both sides with concerns about the case — appearing to question some of the key elements of the state’s case, including the application of a consumer fraud statute, the justification for the financial penalty prosecutors sought, and the private nature of the transactions in question, mirroring well-worn defense arguments that failed during the case’s lengthy trial this year.
Trump himself did not attend Thursday’s hearing in New York.
WATCH LIVE COVERAGE of the press conference in one of the videos below. It is expected to start shortly after 4:30 pm ET:
Ahead of the press conference, it is uncertain whether Trump will address the appeals court appearance, or whether his speech is about other matters.
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