'Very angry' Trump gave prosecutors ammo that 'will be used against him': Maggie Haberman
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said on Tuesday that she believed former President Donald Trump slipped up while under oath this week and gave New York Attorney General Letitia James information that her team would use to hammer him in their fraud lawsuit against him.
While appearing on CNN, Haberman said that she "didn't expect Trump to take ownership of the [financial] statements the way that he did," which she said stood in contrast to his two eldest sons, both of whom shifted culpability for the statements to the company's accounting team.
When asked about why she believed Trump had copped to being involved in the substance of the financial documents, Haberman chalked it up to once again blowing off his lawyers' advice.
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"I think sometimes he says things under oath that he doesn't mean to say or that he has been coached not to say," she said. "I think that the performance that we saw in terms of him attacking Letitia James, attacking the judge, describing it all in very political terms, that was all very planned. There's no question about that, and he is, to be clear... very very angry about this case... But I was surprised by some of what he said that he will be used against him as damages are being assessed in this case."
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