Former President Donald Trump recently answered questions after meeting with Teamsters President Sean O’Brien in Washington, DC. He was asked about variety of topics from a potential border deal to his legal troubles and the possibility he could land the Teamster’s endorsement.
Trump stated that his opposition to a border security deal passing Congress and sounded optimistic about his courting of the Teamsters. Trump later denied reality when asked about paying penalties in his New York fraud and defamation cases.
“Do you plan to try to use campaign funds or PAC money to try to pay some of the penalties in the New York defamation and fraud cases?” asked an off-camera reporter.
“I don’t understand, what?” shot back Trump.
“Are you thinking of potentially trying to use campaign money to pay some of those penalties you incurred?” clarified the reporter.
“What penalties?” Trump asked.
“In the New York fraud case, the defamation case,” answered the reporter.
“I didn’t do anything wrong. I mean, that’s been proven as far as I’m concerned. And actually, we won in the Court of Appeals. You probably saw that that case has been largely won in the Court of Appeals. That was a political case coordinated with the White House by the attorney general, I assume is what you’re talking about,” Trump said of his civil fraud case, where he has already been found liable.
“And we won that case largely in the Court of Appeals,” Trump added, despite the case awaiting a verdict.
The reporter then pressed him to answer regarding the E. Jean Carroll defamation cases, in which separate juries have ordered him to pay Carroll $88.3 million.
“That’s a ridiculous case,” Trump shot back.
