A transcript of former President Donald Trump\u2019s sworn testimony from an April deposition held in regards to a civil case against him and his company by the state of New York for fraud was released Wednesday.<\/p>\n
In it, Trump said under oath that he was too busy \u201csaving millions of lives\u201d by preventing \u201cnuclear holocaust\u201d to pay very much attention to what was happening at his company.<\/p>\n
The deposition was held on April 13 of this year at the office of the state attorney general, according to the transcript.<\/p>\n
The transcript records several pages of preliminaries before prosecuting attorney Kevin Wallace asked the former president about the Trump Organization<\/a> as an \u201can umbrella organization for all of [Trump\u2019s] real estate development and corporate affiliates\u201d and who was making the decisions for it, especially his children Erik, Don and Ivanka<\/a>.<\/p>\n Once he began campaigning in earnest in 2015, he said, \u201cmy role was gone\u201d as a leader in the Trump Organization. Trump\u2019s reasoning for that was essentially that he \u201creally wasn\u2019t interested, believe it or not\u201d in what the company was doing.<\/p>\n \u201cI was interested 16 in solving the problem with North Korea, which was ready to blow up, and solving the problems we had with China, who was just ripping us off left and right, and making sure\u00a0 that Russia never went into Ukraine, which they didn\u2019t, under our auspices and, you know, a lot of other things,\u201d Trump explained. \u201cThere were a lot of things that were happening in the world, as you probably know.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump said he handled all those issues well, but they re-emerged under President Joe Biden<\/a>.<\/p>\n For clarification, Trump was asked if he was \u201ctoo busy\u201d for the company.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, I think you can say it. It\u2019s another way of saying it,\u201d Trump responded. \u201cI was very busy. I was \u2014 I considered this the most important job in the world, saving millions of lives. I think you would have nuclear holocaust, if I didn\u2019t deal with North Korea. I think you would have a nuclear war, if I weren\u2019t elected. And I think you might have a nuclear war now, if you want to know the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n The attorney for the prosecution didn\u2019t sound impressed by the aversion of a nuclear holocaust<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not going to use my seven hours on nuclear war,\u201d he said, referring to the amount of time slated for the deposition.<\/p>\n Most of the deposition reads like similar documents from countless cases around the country, but there were occasional moments that The New York Times<\/a> described as \u201ccontentious.\u201d<\/p>\n At one point, for example, Trump attorney Christopher Kise interrupted Wallace, saying, \u201cWe\u2019re going to be here until midnight if you keep asking questions that are all over the map.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cChris, we\u2019re going to be here until midnight if your client answers every question with an eight-minute speech,\u201d Wallace responded.<\/p>\n \u201cSo let\u2019s get down to business,\u201d he suggested.<\/p>\n You can read the entire transcript here<\/a> or immediately below.<\/p>\n 452564 2022 People of the State of v People of the State of Exhibit s 859<\/a> by The Western Journal<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n\n Trump has moved to have the case thrown out of court, according to The Times, with a ruling on that motion expected in September. If that doesn\u2019t happen, the trial is expected to begin in October.<\/p>\n This article appeared originally on The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Trump in Sworn Testimony: I Averted \u2018Nuclear Holocaust\u2019 While in White House, \u2018Saving Millions of Lives\u2019<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A transcript of former President Donald Trump\u2019s sworn testimony from an April deposition held in regards to a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n