New York: The former US President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the judge presiding over his civil fraud trail to ‘leave my children alone’, who are shortly to take witness stand in financial fraud case.
His eldest son Don Jr and younger one Eric Trump,39 will have to appear at the witness stand this week in the financial fraud case which is likely to cause heavy blow to Trump’s business empire, according to news agency AFP.
Trump earlier said on his social media site Truth Social that Judge Arthur Engoron was ‘ doing the dirty work for Democrat Party’, alongside calling him a ‘political hack’.
Trump, who is the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, attacked the judge further calling him ‘disgrace to the legal profession’, adding that ‘Engoron is crazy, totally unhinged and dangerous’.
As per the court schedule Don Jr and Eric Trump will testify before the court respectively on Wednesday and Thursday .
They are executive presidents of Trump Organization which is into a network of areas including luxury hotels and gold courses around the world.
New York state attorney general Letitia James accused Trump and his sons of inflating the group’s assets for appropriating favourable bank loans and insurance terms.
Trump himself is to be questioned on Monday, followed by his daughter Ivanka Trump two days later, who is not a defendant in the case.
Don Jr and Eric Trump maintain that banks did not lose any money because subjective valuations of assets including Trump Tower and a building at 40 Wall Street were sincere.
Trump will not go to jail if found guilty but face up to 250 million in penalties and is likely to be removed along with his son from management of the his real estate empire, according to the report.