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Trump bails out of fraud trial on 3rd day: He came, he scowled, he got gagged, and left
Exit, Donald Trump.
After 2 ½ days of scowling inside — and angrily speechifying just outside — a Manhattan courtroom, the former president on Wednesday left his $250 million civil fraud trial.
He doesn't have to return until he testifies by order of a New York state subpoena some weeks from now.
"I'd rather be right now in Iowa," Trump said in a parting shot to reporters at the start of the lunch break, midway through the trial's first week.
"I'm stuck here because I have a corrupt attorney general who communicates with the Justice Department to keep me busy," he said, leaving the third-floor courtroom, where the future of his real-estate empire is set to be decided over the next two to three months.
New York's attorney general, Letitia James, has sued Trump, his eldest sons, and his real-estate empire, the Trump Organization, alleging he falsely inflated the value of his properties by as much as $3.6 billion a year in official statements to banks, insurers, and others.
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