Trump formally renominated by Republicans as convention gets under way – live
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More on lawsuits facing the Trump organization – New York state Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit investigating whether Trump inflated the valuations of certain assets.
New York’s Democratic attorney general asked a court Monday to enforce subpoenas into an investigation into whether President Donald Trump and his businesses inflated assets on financial statements.
Attorney General Letitia James filed a petition in state trial court in New York City naming the Trump Organization, an umbrella group for the Republican president’s holdings, as a respondent along with other business entities. The filing also named Eric Trump and Seven Springs, a New York estate owned by the Trump family.
As Trump was giving his speech, prominent Republican and former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake called on Republicans with misgivings to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. He said it is “not enough” for people with misgivings to simply vote third-party.
Jeff Flake says he “wholeheartedly” endorses Joe Biden & urges anti-Trump Republicans not to vote third-party: “It’s not enough to just register our disapproval of the president. We need to elect someone else in his place, someone who will stop the chaos and reverse the damage.”
The Biden campaign rolled out a long list of Republicans endorsing the former vice president today. At the top is former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, hardly a moderate but one who’s opposed Trump from early on. Flake is going to speak about his endorsement later today. pic.twitter.com/ISrPaNHR9r
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