Business Insider Article RatingTrump's NY fraud-trial defense is costing millions, and that's just the expert witnesses
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| "Trump's eleventh and final expert witness wins the trophy for having the highest hourly fee in the group: $1,350." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Those 650 hours works out to the equivalent of working a full time, 40-hour week for Trump for four months, on top of his teaching schedule." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "Trump plans to make an encore trip to the witness stand Monday, this time as a defense witness, his lawyers have promised." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Trump's real estate company and his political super PAC are both footing his bill, Bartov said." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Four of Trump's paid witnesses come from the international consultancy firm Ankura, including accounting expert Jason Flemmons, whose testimony a month ago contradicted what Bartov would say this week." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "This is pure speculation from someone they hired to say whatever they want, Kevin Wallace, a lead lawyer for the AG, said during Bartov's testimony on Thursday." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "There is no way they relied on the statements of financial condition when they made their lending decision, Bartov said of Trump's bankers, using the formal term for net-worth statements." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "The trial defendants include Trump, his two eldest sons, and two additional longstanding Trump Organization executives, all of whom conspired in drafting the statements." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The four Ankura consultants account for at least half of the Trump defense's more than two million dollar expert witness bill." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Donald Trump and his Save America PAC are being charged well over $2 million by the accounting and real estate experts who've testified for the defense in the ongoing Trump civil fraud trial in New York, according to the experts' own testimony." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "In all, eleven experts have testified on Trump's behalf since early November in the trial, at which state Attorney General Letitia James seeks more than $250 million in penalties for what the judge has already ruled was rampant fraud in Trump's aual net-worth statements." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The state counters that banks very much relied on Trump's math, and that, in any event, it is illegal to lie in a financial document." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Christopher Kise, Trump's lead fraud-trial lawyer, is reportedly on a $3 million retainer, though he is also leading the defense in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Bartov testified Friday that in his opinion, banks ignored Trump's net worth statements, which he opined contained absolutely no fraud whatsoever." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Trump was at the head of this conspiracy, the AG has alleged." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Beyond the $2.3 million being charged by experts, it's unclear how much Trump's fraud trial defense is costing." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Trump's outside accountants were to blame, he said, for any inconsistencies." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Trump's aual net-worth statements contained billions of dollars of lies and exaggerations each year, they allege." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
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