So this week, in addition to all of the other legal problems that Donald Trump has kicking
around, we were once again reminded that he is facing a $250 million civil lawsuit. He
and his sons from the New York Attorney General Letitia James. And we were reminded by that
when Letitia James came out with some court filings this week, one, asking for a summary
judgment alleging that Donald Trump inflated his assets by $2 billion one year. And the
second reminder we got was, uh, when the transcripts of his deposition were released. Now everybody
that's talked about these transcripts has basically highlighted the fact that Trump
says he was too busy being president to commit crimes because he was saving us from a nuclear
holocaust. That's what all the headlines have been that I've seen, but they've overlooked
one very important part of Donald Trump's deposition, and that is the part where he
throws his own son under the bus, like media.
Y'all did a terrible job covering this 'cause you're like, Trump says he prevented nuclear
Holocaust. No, Trump said Eric Trump was the guy who did all the fraud. That's what he
basically said in this deposition. Now, let me read you the full statement. Here's what
Trump said. He was asked by Kevin Wallace, a lawyer for the Attorney General's office.
So you were too busy for the company. And Trump responded in a way. Yeah, yeah. I I
think you can say it, it's another way of saying it. I was very busy. I I was, I considered
this the most important job in the world, saving millions of lives. I think you would've
had nuclear Holocaust if I didn't deal with North Korea. I think you would've had nuclear
war if I weren't elected. And I, I think you might have a nuclear war. Now, if you want
to know the truth now, that's where most media outlets have stopped with it. 'cause like,
oh, Trump says he was too busy averting nuclear disaster to commit all the fraud that his
company allegedly committed. But you gotta go a little further because then he said this,
my son Eric, is much more involved with it than I am. I, I've been doing other things
and I guess you could say on something major, whatever, but, uh, I've been much less involved
in it than over the last five years, five or six years than ever before.
My son, Eric, is much more involved with it than I am. He didn't say my sons, because
both Eric and Don Jr. Were supposed to be running the company while he was president
of the United States. He didn't say my kids. He didn't just say other people. He was like
Eric Trump, that guy right there. He is the one who was in charge of things. He singled
out the one kid as like, Hey, the company was committing fraud. I mean, this guy was
in charge. I was over here talking to North Korea. I wanna say, it's not surprising that
he threw his own son under the bus, but there is still part
Of me that reads that quote and it's like, oh my God, you really threw your kid under
the bus. Now, there had been speculation, by the way, for months and months and months
with this particular trial. I think even Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer said it, they
all predicted Trump will throw his kids under the bus to save his own skin. And I believed
it. But it's one thing to think he would have the opportunity to do it. And another to read
it in the official sworn deposition transcript. Trump was under oath when he said this. So
here's where things are gonna get fun in the near future. 'cause this trial starts in a
month. Folks, that clip of the deposition will be played in trial. They're not gonna
read the transcript. They will play the video. That's, that's what they do. And sitting in
that courtroom, Donald Trump, Don Jr. And Eric, Eric is going to see his father. He
is going to hear his father throw him under the bus. I don't know how Eric will react,
but that is exactly what his dad did. He was like, Hey, I'm a busy guy. I was saving the
world, Eric. He's the one you need to be looking at. Probably probably gonna make Thanksgiving
this year. Just a little bit awkward, don't you think?