Trump on Tuesday withdrew his last appeal of New York's three-year probe of the Trump Organization. The withdrawal clears the way for an October trial in Attorney General Letitia James' $250 million fraud lawsuit. Trump's federal appeal had sought to revive a December 2021 federal lawsuit that he'd hoped would end what he described as James' politically biased attack on the Trump Organization. The Manhattan DA had separately tried the Trump Organization criminally, and a Manhattan jury found the company guilty of a payroll tax-fraud scheme in December. Trump has a Thursday deadline to file an answer to James' lawsuit.

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