Internal emails shown at Donald Trump's civil fraud trial reveal that when he tried to buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014, investment bankers doubted the NFL would allow it but encouraged him to stay in the running.
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he exits the courtroom of his civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, in New York. in 2014, investment bankers doubted the NFL would allow it but encouraged him to stay in the running, according to internal emails aired Tuesday at the former president's civil fraud trial.
Trump denies any wrongdoing and says his annual statements of financial condition actually lowballed his wealth. He casts the lawsuit as part of an effort by James and other Democrats to choke his campaign. In offering to buy the Bills, Trump cited his net worth as $8 billion in an initial offer letter but never provided his financial statements. His then-lawyer Michael Cohen told the bankers that Trump wouldn't release his financial records until told he was “the final bidder,” according to an email shown in court Tuesday.
“There’s nobody more serious than Donald Trump,” Cohen said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2014. Separately, Cornwell wrote to colleagues that they “still want to keep him around” and said that Trump had asked to be “pre-vetted” privately, so the bank would do so.
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