Trump Appeals Civil Fraud Ruling, Citing Former Lawyer’s Testimony Doubts

US President Donald Trump asked New York’s highest court to vacate a judge’s finding that he was liable for inflating the value of his real estate assets, arguing that his former lawyer Michael Cohen has since cast doubt on his own testimony against the president.

In a filing on Wednesday, Trump’s lawyers cited a January Substack post by Cohen in which he claimed he felt “compelled and coerced” to deliver testimony that New York Attorney General Letitia James was seeking in a civil fraud suit she brought against Trump. James alleged Trump had inflated assets by billions of dollars to secure better loan and insurance rates.