TrumpT ‘likely to run’ in 2024
NEW YORK: Donald Trump is now more likely to run for president in 2024 after the New York State AttorneyGeneral filed a lawsuit alleging “staggering” fraud committed at his company by Mr Trump and his three eldest children, according to an architect of his first White House bids.
Jason Miller, Mr Trump’s campaign adviser and a spokesman from 2016 to 2021, said the investigation by attorney general Letitia James was “the swamp fighting back”.
“I think it’s very problematic when you have an attorney general who actually campaigned in 2018 saying that she was going to lock up Donald Trump,” Mr Miller said ahead of Ms James’ announcement of a fraud lawsuit.
Ms James, who alleges “numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation” in preparing annual financial statements between 2011 and 2021, campaigned as a candidate for attorney general on the promise of investigating a president she called “illegitimate”.
In accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination in 2018, Ms James told supporters her campaign “was about that man in the White House who can’t go a day without threatening our fundamental rights”.
While Mr Trump sued Ms James to prevent the investigation from continuing, US District Judge Brenda Sannes dismissed his case for failing to show a connection between her political opinions and how the investigation played out.
“But when you have the lead of that, the attorney general actually campaigning on that? How do you say that he’s getting a fair shake?” Mr Miller, CEO of social media platform GETTR, said.
He added that the more Mr Trump challenges establishment political parties, the more the “swamp fights back”; from the investigation into Russian election interference to the January 6 commission and the FBI raid of Mar-a-lago.
“What people are seeing, is basically this witch hunt, whether we have the Mueller investigation of two and a half years, that ended up being nothing, impeachment one, impeachment two. And now we’re onto this where you have upwards of five grand juries in federal or state courts going on at one point,” he said.