Former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom with his legal team before the continuation of his civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, in New York.
The attorney general, a Democrat, started investigating Trump in 2019 after Cohen testified to Congress that the billionaire politician had a history of misrepresenting the value of assets to gain favorable loan terms and tax benefits. She didn’t comment as she arrived Tuesday. On Tuesday, Trump heard Kidder discuss his company's finances, including a mention of a prior tangle with New York state's lawyers: former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's 2013real estate seminar program.