Trump in Sworn Testimony: I Averted ‘Nuclear Holocaust’ While in White House, ‘Saving Millions of Lives’
A transcript of former President Donald Trump’s sworn testimony from an April deposition held in regards to a civil case against him and his company by the state of New York for fraud was released Wednesday.
In it, Trump said under oath that he was too busy “saving millions of lives” by preventing “nuclear holocaust” to pay very much attention to what was happening at his company.
The deposition was held on April 13 of this year at the office of the state attorney general, according to the transcript.
The transcript records several pages of preliminaries before prosecuting attorney Kevin Wallace asked the former president about the Trump Organization as an “an umbrella organization for all of [Trump’s] real estate development and corporate affiliates” and who was making the decisions for it,