Former US president Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr was deposed as part of the Washington DC attorney general lawsuit alleging misuse of Trump’s inaugural funds. DC Attorney General Karl Racine’s office said that Donald Trump Jr was deposed on February 11.
The former president’s two son’s — Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr — both serve as the executive vice presidents of the Trump Organisation and are under scrutiny. The deputy chair of the Presidential Inaugural Committee, Rick Gates, has already been deposed by Racine’s office in December. Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump is also under scrutiny and sat for deposition hearing in December.
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Racine said that the Trump Organisation had signed a $49,358.92 deal with Loews Madison Hotel to book block rooms for the former president’s inauguration back in 2017. The bill was then forwarded to the Presidential Inaugural Committee, which according to the filing, paid the bill.
Rick Gates said during his deposition that the booking was made by a person names Gentry Beach. Beach had told Gates that the rooms were being booked for individuals who had donated for the Presidential Inaugural Committee and hence “the hotel bill should be paid by PIC.”
The attorney general’s office has added in the filing that they have faced “repeated obstacles, including misleading testimony, a closed hotel and new information revealed after the deadline for issuing discovery requests passed on February 8.”
The Attorney General said in the filing, “These witnesses gave inconsistent accounts of the purpose of the contract and why the PIC agreed to pay it, and none of the witnesses gave a complete or accurate account of the circumstances surrounding the invoice.”
The filing adds that Trump Jr’s deposition has “raised further questions about the nature” of a hotel invoice that is being investigated by Racine’s office.
Among other things under scrutiny are the Trump family compounds that include Seven Springs in New York, 40 Wall Street skyscrapers and the Trump Tower.
