May 6, 2024
Trump unloads on ex-prosecutor Mark Pomerantz’s new book on Manhattan DA’s fraud probe

Trump unloads on ex-prosecutor Mark Pomerantz’s new book on Manhattan DA’s fraud probe

Former President Trump erupted after “60 Minutes” interviewed former Manhattan prosecutor Mark Pomerantz on his upcoming book chronicling the investigation into alleged sweeping fraud at Trump’s real estate empire.

“Radically deranged Mark Pomerantz led the fake investigation into me and my business at the Manhattan D.A.’s Office,” Trump wrote Sundayon his social media site. “Now, Pomerantz got himself a book deal, and is obsessively spreading falsehoods about me.”

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in 2020.

Trump said the fact that a onetime top lawyer could trash him so fiercely proves the entire criminal justice system is biased against him.

“With all of this vicious disinformation being revealed by a “prosecutor,” how can I ever be treated fairly in New York, or anywhere else?” Trump wrote. “End the Witch Hunts!”

Pomerantz resigned from his post in February 2022 after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg declined to immediately prosecute Trump for some of the wrongdoing unearthed in the probe.

Attorney Mark Pomerantz leaves court in New York on Sept. 8, 2004.

The prosecutor instead wrote the forthcoming book, “People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account,” to detail some of the strongest evidence against the former president.

“If you take the exact same conduct and make it not about Donald Trump and not about a former president of the United States, would the case have been indicted? It would have been indicted in a flat second,” Pomerantz said in the interview with CBS News’ Bill Whitaker.

“Given all the evidence that we had, nobody said: ‘Hey, the guy’s not guilty,’” Pomerantz added.

The Manhattan DA says he is still investigating Trump as more evidence emerges.

Just last week, prosecutors started presenting evidence to a grand jury about the former president’s role in hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels by Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen before the 2016 election.

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