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Donald Trump is still blaming himself for the accounting firm's decision to stop doing business with the Trump Organization.

He said that the firm Mazars USA was broken by racist prosecutors.

There is no evidence for Trump's accusations that the prosecutors are racist. The Manhattan District Attorney and the state Attorney General are both black.

Mazars did not say the same about the Trump Organization.

In a letter that was part of a court document filed last week, Mazars explained that it had to end its relationship because ten years of financial statements it had prepared with records from the Trump Organization could no longer be considered reliable.

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Liz Harrington wrote on February 20, 2022.

The attorney general is investigating whether Trump inflated asset values to obtain bank loans and entice investors, and reduced values to lower tax bills.

Trump claimed in his first statement that the company had been threatened and intimidated. He talked about his company's finances and financial practices.

Legal issues were complicated by the statement. On the day before, Trump's attorneys argued that he could not be held accountable for practices being investigated by James because he had no idea about the financial details of his company.

James wrote a letter to the judge presiding over the investigation about the first Mazars statement.

The Office of the Attorney General is investigating what Trump knows, she wrote.

Trump and his children were ordered by a Manhattan Supreme Court judge to answer questions under oath.

The article was originally on HuffPost.

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