I pay, I serve my prison time. Why am I still paying lawyers and spending time on that? Because there's important, important principle constitutionally at stake in my appeal. If I lose that appeal, everybody in this West Wing here, everybody who will ever serve in the White House, will be exposed to a choice between getting a congressional subpoena and violating the Constitution or going to prison. So that's a Hobson's choice. All right, what else you got? Anybody on this? Yes, Sir. President Trump's $500 million New York civil fraud penalty that was prosecuted by Letitia James last year. (09:57–10:13)
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Asserts that losing his appeal would expose White House staff to a constitutional dilemma.
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