In a new episode of the legal complaints against him, former U.S. President Donald Trump and his two sons face a civil trial that will last three months, from October to Christmas, after being accused by New York state courts of "inflating" his assets by billions of dollars between 2011 and 2021.

One New York judge had decided that this trial, which does not include a jury, will begin on October 2 in Manhattan. In an order announced on Friday, he noted that the proceedings would continue until December 22, just before the first Republican primary on January 15 in Iowa. Donald Trump, who dreams of returning to the White House, is considered the frontrunner to win this election.

The preliminary hearings are scheduled for the end of September.

Before this civil trial, New York Attorney General Letitia James referred hundreds of pages of charging documents against Donald Trump and his two oldest sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, to the local Supreme Court on Friday.

This comes to support the complaint that the judge filed in September 2022, seeking $250 million in damages from Trump, his sons, and the Trump family business, for damages related to tax and financial fraud.

The attorney general also accuses the Republican billionaire and his sons of intentionally manipulating, up and down, the valuations of the group consisting of golf clubs, luxury hotels, and other properties, in order to obtain loans on better terms from banks or to reduce taxes on them.

According to court documents revealed by James on August 30, Trump is suspected of "fraudulently inflating the value of his assets by billions of dollars."