President Donald Trump urged New York’s highest court on Wednesday to throw out the remaining findings in the state’s civil fraud case against him, escalating his long-running legal battle with Attorney General Letitia James and seeking to wipe away the case entirely.
In a 119-page filing submitted to the New York Court of Appeals, Trump argued that the case was driven by “political hostility” and should be dismissed in full, even after a major appellate ruling last year already eliminated the roughly $460 million financial penalty against him.
“This court should put an end to this politically motivated action,” Trump wrote.
The appeal marks an aggressive effort by the president to erase not just the monetary penalties, which were vacated by a midlevel appeals court in August as “excessive,” but also the underlying finding that he committed fraud by inflating the value of his real estate assets.
That fraud determination, handed down
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