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Politics
Gabriella Ferrigine

EXPLAINED: Trump bailed to avoid a perjury trap - The Real Truth

Former president Donald Trump won't testify in his own defense at his New York civil fraud trial, in a last-minute reversal announced Sunday. 

"I will not be testifying on Monday," Trump wrote in an all-caps statement posted on his social-media platform, Truth Social. “I have already testified to everything & have nothing more to say other than this is a complete & total election interference (Biden campaign!) witch hunt, that will do nothing but keep businesses out of New York” he added, while also spouting off claims the New York Attorney General Letitia James's case was illegitimate. "I have very successfully & conclusively testified" in James's "rigged trial against me," the ex-president added.

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