close Video ‘Serious legal errors’ in the NY v. Trump case, verdict: John Yoo Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo tells ‘America’s Newsroom’ that the case has ‘grounds for reversal.’ Former President Donald Trump delivered lengthy remarks Friday morning from Trump Tower in New York following his unprecedented trial resulting in the conviction of 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee for the 2024 election, said that he wished to have testified in his criminal trial N.Y. v.
Trump, though it appears he was given counsel otherwise. "I would have testified. I wanted to testify ," Trump said from the podium.
"The theory is you never testify because as soon as you testify – anybody, if it were George Washington — don't testify because they'll get you on something that you said slightly wrong, and then they'll sue you for perjury." "But I didn't care about that. I wanted to," Trump reiterated.
LEGAL EXPERTS SAY TRUMP CONVICTION IS A 'TARGET RICH ENVIRONMENT' FOR APPEAL Former President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump Tower, Friday, May 31, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson) But, he said, Judge Juan Merchan "allowed them to go into everything that I was ever involved in. Not this case – everything that I was ever involved in, which is a first.
" "In other words, you could go into every single thing that I ever did. Was he a bad boy here? Was he a bad boy there? And my lawyer said, .
