Trump demands NY AG Letitia James drop $454M civil fraud case for the greater good of the country

Lawyers for President-elect Donald Trump are demanding that New York Attorney General Letitia James drop her civil fraud case against him, his family and his businesses “for the greater good of the country,” Fox News Digital has learned. “In furtherance of our conversations with your office, we write to request that you completely dismiss the above-referenced case against President Donald J.Trump, his family, and his businesses, and stipulate to vacate the Judgment and dismiss all claims with prejudice,” Trump attorney D.

John Sauer wrote in a letter exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital. Trump was ordered to pay a $454 million civil fraud judgment in James’ lawsuit against him. Trump has appealed the ruling, and judges on a New York appeals court seemed open-minded and receptive to potentially reversing the judgment altogether.Sauer, though, pointed to Trump’s “historic election victory.”“President Trump has called for our Nation’s partisan strife to end, and for the contending factions to join forces for the greater good of the country,” Sauer wrote.“This call for unity extends to the legal onslaught against him and his family that permeated the most recent election cycle.” Sauer, who was nominated as solicitor general in the second Trump administration, called the cases against Trump to have been “a flashpoint of national partisan division.”  “As counsel for President Trump in this appeal—and now as his nominee for Solicitor General of the United States—I have had the opportunity to experience this partisan division personally, and I strongly believe that it is necessary for the health of our Republic for the strife and lawfare to end.”He added, “You now have the singular opportunity to help cure this division.” Sauer’s letter comes after a string of legal victories for Trump and his legal team, coordinated by senior legal adviser Boris Epshteyn. Sauer pointed to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s recent req...