Former President Donald Trump's middle son, Eric Trump, raged about how offensive he found the smell of the New York courtroom where their civil trial for fraud is being conducted, Newsweek reported on Thursday.
"The courthouse I was in today, it's disgusting. It smells. You had cables running across all the walls. It's a disgrace and the fact that that's a representation of our legal system," he said. "You see the same thing at airports. I mean, how many times do you fly through an airport and you see acoustical airport tiles that are falling down, right?"
The younger Trump went on to claim that now-former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) should have let the federal government shut down because it can't do anything right. "Do I think it was a mistake not shutting down the government? 100 percent. They should've," he said. "We are running a $2 trillion deficit and our bridges are falling down and our roads suck and our trains are antiquated, they are from the 1950s."
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"You look at China where they are building these bullet trains that go 300 miles per hour, we are falling behind the rest of the world," he added.
The former president and his two adult sons have already been found liable for civil fraud in summary judgment by Judge Arthur Engoron in the trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who laid out damning evidence they and the Trump Organization have for years misrepresented the value and even square footage of their properties to get better loan deals.
This trial this week, which is being conducted as a bench trial because Trump's attorney Alina Habba botched the paperwork to request a jury, is not about determining fact and is only to assess damages. James is seeking $250 million in fines and the prohibition on Trump's family from doing business in New York State.
