Despite her attempts to avoid and delay testifying in the Malignant Loser's business fraud trial in New York, Ivanka Trump is scheduled to take the stand today:
Ivanka Trump is set to appear on the witness stand today at her father’s New York $250m fraud trial. She will be the last family member and the last witness to testify before the prosecution rests its case.
Last month, Ivanka Trump asked the court to remove her from the prosecution’s witness list, though she ultimately rescinded the appeal. Ivanka Trump tried to argue that appearing in court would cause her “undue hardship” if she was to testify during the school week. The attorney general’s office had wanted Trump’s eldest daughter to testify in court before the former president himself took the stand, but ultimately rescheduled her appearance because of her appeal.
Once listed as a co-defendant on the case, along with her father and two adult brothers, an appeals court tossed out the claims against Ivanka Trump last summer, saying that her involvement with the Trump Organization had passed the statute of limitations.
Before the trial started, Judge Arthur Engoron found Trump guilty of inflating the value of his assets on state financial statements that were used to broker deals and obtain loans. Though Trump’s team is appealing the decision, he stands to lose his state business licenses if the appellate court sides with Engoron. The actual trial is over the fine Trump will have to pay. Prosecutors are asking for at least $250m.
Ivanka Trump had served as a top executive at the Trump Organization, alongside brothers Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, until 2017, when she stepped down to assist her father at the White House. Like her siblings, she helped her father broker deals with lenders to develop properties for the company. [snip]
It is unclear what stance Ivanka Trump will take on the stand. She has surprised in testimony before when in 2022 she told investigators looking into the January 6 Capitol insurrection that she did not believe the election was stolen, contrary to her father’s furious insistence. Trump’s eldest daughter said she believed former attorney general William Barr, who maintained that Trump had lost the election.
“I respect Attorney General Barr. So I accepted what he was saying,” Ivanka Trump told congressional investigators at the time...
We don't know if daddy will be in the courtroom to ogle/ intimidate his daughter. We also don't know how she will respond to questioning, except we predict a lot of weaseling and memory- lapsing. Producing documents with her name on them will have a clarifying effect on her powers of recall.
The Malignant Loser has already torpedoed his defense, so whatever his daughter may or may not add is almost irrelevant now. But the opportunity to bathe in schadenfreude over the legal morass of this corrupt family should not be missed.
