Trump demands New York AG Letitia James drop civil fraud case 'for the greater good of the country'

EXCLUSIVE: Lawyers for President-elect Donald Trump are demanding that New York Attorney General Letitia James driblet her civil fraud lawsuit against him, his household and his businesses "for the greater bully of the country," Fox News Digital has learned. 

"In furtherance of our conversations with your office, we constitute to petition that you wholly disregard the above-referenced case against President Donald J. Trump, his family, and his businesses, and stipulate to vacate the Judgment and disregard each claims with prejudice," Trump lawyer D. John Sauer wrote successful a missive exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital. 

NEW YORK APPEALS COURT APPEARS RECEPTIVE TO REVERSING OR REDUCING $454M TRUMP CIVIL FRAUD JUDGMENT

Trump was ordered to wage a $454 cardinal civilian fraud judgement successful James’ suit against him. 

Trump has appealed the ruling, and judges connected a New York appeals tribunal seemed open-minded and receptive to perchance reversing the judgement altogether. 

Sauer, though, pointed to Trump’s "historic predetermination victory."

President-elect Donald Trump speaks astatine a House Republicans Conference gathering astatine the Hyatt Regency connected Capitol Hill, Nov. 13. (Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Images)

"President Trump has called for our Nation’s partisan strife to end, and for the contending factions to articulation forces for the greater bully of the country," Sauer wrote. "This telephone for unity extends to the ineligible onslaught against him and his household that permeated the astir caller predetermination cycle." 

Sauer, who was nominated arsenic solicitor wide successful the 2nd Trump administration, called the cases against Trump to person been "a flashpoint of nationalist partisan division."  

"As counsel for President Trump successful this appeal—and present arsenic his nominee for Solicitor General of the United States—I person had the accidental to acquisition this partisan part personally, and I powerfully judge that it is indispensable for the wellness of our Republic for the strife and lawfare to end." 

He added: "You present person the singular accidental to assistance cure this division." 

Sauer's missive comes aft a drawstring of ineligible victories for Trump and his ineligible team, coordinated by elder ineligible advisor Boris Epshteyn. 

Sauer pointed to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s caller request, which was granted by national Judge Tanya Chutkan, to disregard his lawsuit against Trump related to the 2020 election. Smith besides tossed his entreaty successful the classified records lawsuit connected Monday, aft a national justice dismissed the charges altogether successful July, ruling that helium was unlawfully appointed arsenic peculiar counsel."

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during the property briefing with Gov. Kathy Hochul discussing the interaction of 2024 statesmanlike election. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

In New York v. Trump, Judge Juan Merchan granted Trump’s petition to record a question to disregard the charges stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s lawsuit and removed the sentencing day for the president-elect from the schedule. 

"This lawsuit warrants the aforesaid treatment," Sauer wrote. 

Sauer reminded that successful James’ case, "the statute of limitations bars claims and liability." 

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Sauer besides reminded that her lawsuit involves "no victims, nary complaints, nary misstatements, nary causation, and nary injuries oregon losses." 

"Instead, President Trump provided wide and unambiguous disclaimers to blase commercialized parties who made decisions based connected their ain owed diligence," Sauer wrote. "Every indebtedness and security outgo was made successful full, and either connected clip oregon early." 

Sauer said Trump’s concern partners "were delighted with these transactions" and "benefited enormously, making implicit $100 cardinal successful profits." 

Sauer said that the grounds "definitively demonstrates that the defendants’ counterparties were not deceived, that they performed their ain owed diligence and eagerly sought, and embraced, the highly profitable concern transactions, and that the challenged statements did not impact the presumption of immoderate transaction." 

"As noted above, they were paid backmost successful full, connected clip oregon early," helium said. 

Sauer said that "the chilling effect generated by this lawsuit is crushing to businesses crossed New York, who are being forced to fly to friendlier States wherever specified standardless enforcement and excessive punishment are not found."

"President Trump is 1 of the astir palmy developers successful the past of New York," Sauer said. "He rebuilt the New York skyline, created thousands of jobs, rescued and rejuvenated historical Wollman Rink, developed the $3 cardinal West Side Railyards from 59th to 72nd Street successful Manhattan, was profoundly progressive successful processing the Jacob Javits Center, and is singularly liable for galore different successes," Sauer wrote. "This suit against him ‘vindicates nary nationalist purpose.’" 

Trump lawyer D. John Sauer. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Sauer pointed Trump’s monolithic landslide triumph and his pending inauguration arsenic the 47th president. 

Sauer besides pointed to remarks by past presidents, specifically connected Oct. 3, 1863, during "the clip of our Nation’s top division," erstwhile President Abraham Lincoln issued the Thanksgiving Proclamation.

"President Lincoln called for the American radical to acceptable speech their bitter divisions truthful that the blessings of liberty could beryllium ‘solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged arsenic with 1 bosom and 1 dependable by the full American people.’" Sauer wrote. "He urged each Americans to ‘fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty manus to heal the wounds of the nation, and to reconstruct it, arsenic soon arsenic whitethorn beryllium accordant with the Divine purposes, to the afloat enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.’" 

Sauer added: "Invoking the aforesaid tone of unity, we petition that you stipulate to the vacatur of the Judgment and dismissal of this lawsuit with prejudice." 

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Sauer’s missive comes aft New York Judge Arthur Engoron ruled earlier this twelvemonth that Trump and different defendants were liable for persistent and repeated fraud, falsifying concern records, issuing mendacious fiscal statements, conspiracy to falsify mendacious fiscal statements, security fraud and conspiracy to perpetrate security fraud. 

In September 2023, earlier the non-jury proceedings began, Engoron ruled that Trump and the Trump Organization had committed fraud while gathering his existent property empire by deceiving banks, insurers and others by overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his nett worthy connected paperwork utilized successful making deals and securing financing.

Trump was deed with an archetypal punishment of $355 million. That sum is rapidly expanding via involvement accruals of astir $112,000 a time until paid successful full, present sitting astir $470 million.

Trump's ineligible squad said the archetypal requested enslaved was "unprecedented for a backstage company," and said to station it successful the judgment's afloat magnitude was a "practical impossibility." 

An appeals tribunal slashed Trump's enslaved outgo successful March, and the erstwhile president paid $175 million. 

President-elect Trump arrives to talk during an Election Night lawsuit astatine the Palm Beach Convention Center successful West Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 6. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump has vowed to combat the lawsuit "all the mode up to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary." 

Trump and his household denied immoderate wrongdoing, with the erstwhile president saying his assets had been undervalued. Trump's ineligible squad insisted that his fiscal statements had disclaimers, and made it wide to banks that they should behaviour their ain assessments.

Throughout the trial, Trump attorneys brought witnesses, including erstwhile Deutsche Bank apical executives, who testified the banks sought further concern from Trump, whom they viewed arsenic a "whale of a client."

Trump's defence besides brought successful adept witnesses, including New York University accounting prof Eli Bartov, who reviewed the Trump fiscal statements astatine contented successful the lawsuit and said helium recovered nary grounds of accounting fraud.

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Bartov testified past period that Trump’s fiscal statements did not interruption accounting principles, and helium suggested that thing problematic — similar a immense year-to-year leap successful the estimated worth of his Trump Tower penthouse — was simply an error.

"My main uncovering is that determination is nary grounds whatsoever of immoderate accounting fraud," Bartov testified. Trump’s fiscal statements, helium said, "were not materially misstated."