Ivanka faces inauguration cost lawsuit
WASHINGTON: Ivanka Trump was interviewed by District of Columbia lawyers in a lawsuit where President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee is accused of illegally overpaying for events at a hotel owned by his family business.
The deposition of the president’s daughter, a top White House aide is one of many key interviews taken in recent months, according to a court filing, which also disclosed that First Lady Melania Trump has been subpoenaed for documents.
Lawyers for District of Columbia attorney general Karl Racine also have deposed Mickael Damelincourt, the managing director of the Trump hotel in downtown Washington and Eric Danziger, who runs Trump’s hotel business, as well as Thomas Barrack Jr, a longtime friend of the president’s and chairman of the inauguration committee, according to the filing. The content of the depositions wasn’t disclosed or described.
Will accept defeat if result accurate: Trump
President Trump has said he is prepared to accept any poll result if it is “accurate”, while repeating unsubstantiated allegations of large-scale voter fraud and electoral malpractice.
He also told his supporters that his fight was to ensure that Americans have faith in this and future elections.
“Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint a winner, even while many key states were still being counted.
“The Constitutional process must be allowed to continue. We are going to defend the honesty of the vote by ensuring that every legal ballot is counted and that no illegal ballot is counted,” Trump told his supporters at a White House Christmas Party on Tuesday.
Chinese agents targeting Biden team: Officials More than 1,000 Chinese researchers have left the US amid a crackdown on alleged technology theft, top US security officials said on Wednesday, adding that Chinese agents had already been targeting the incoming Biden administration.
John Demers, chief of the US justice department’s National Security Division, told a discussion hosted by the Aspen Institute think tank that the researchers had left the country while the department launched multiple criminal cases against Chinese operatives for industrial and technological espionage.
A justice department official said they were a different group to those mentioned by the State Department in September, when it said the United States had revoked visas for more than 1,000 Chinese nationals under a presidential measure denying entry to students and researchers deemed security risks.