Former President Donald Trump sat for a seven-hour interview with the New York attorney general’s office in April. Here are some of the highlights from the transcript of his deposition.
Each of Trump’s financial statements includes a number of disclaimers, which acknowledge that Trump’s accountants had not reviewed or authenticated his claims. During the interview, Trump refers to those disclaimers, saying that they essentially render the statements meaningless.
TRUMP:
I never felt that these statements would be taken very seriously, because you open it up and right at the beginning of the statement, you read a page and a half of stuff saying, go get your own accounting, go get your own this, go get your own that.
WALLACE:
So why did you get these statements prepared?
TRUMP:
I would say more for maybe myself just to see the list of properties. I think more for myself than anything else. Sometimes an institution would like to see.
Trump then went on to say that his properties were even more valuable than was reflected in the statements themselves.
Worse than that, really: