Donald Trump’s three oldest adult children will be called to testify in the $250 million civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia J. James against him. It was long expected that Trump and Eric Trump would testify in the case. Last week, Judge Arthur Engoron confirmed Ivanka Trump’s testimony.
This week, three of Donald Trump’s eldest adult children will give testimony in the$ 250 million civil fraud case that New York Attorney General Letitia James brought against him. Judge Arthur Engoron confirmed last week that Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. will also be required to testify in the case, which has long seemed probable that Trump, and probably Eric Trump would take the witness stand.
The case revolves around the claim that the former president lied to banks and insurance companies about his real worth in order to negotiate better loan and policy terms. Engoron sided with James’ office before the trial even began, claiming that they had provided a ton of evidence and that all that was required was for the jury to decide how much of the punishment Trump should receive.
Trump is incensed by the most current ruling mandating that his children testify. Next week, Trump stormed out of the trial after Engoron made a decision he didn’t like. On his social media site, Truth Social, he wrote extensively about the situation over the weekend, but after criticizing the choice involving his daughter, his posts fast devolved into rants about being the victim himself.
Trump wrote in a post titled” My daughter, Ivanka, was released from this Fake Letitia James case by the Court of Appeals ,” alluding to the higher court’s decision from June that, at least for the time period in which James had accused Trump of being dishonest, she had largely distanced herself from her father.
There was NO VICTIM, EXCEPT ME, Trump wrote as he therefore turned his attention to himself. Trump even attacked Arthur Engoron, the judge with whom he has frequently disagreed.
Trump wrote,” I genuinely think he is mad, but at the very least, CRAZED in his hatred of me.”
After Trump used Truth Social to track down Engoron’s clerk and posted a link to her private Instagram account, the trial began with the first week of the case. Trump made the untrue claim that the clerk and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer were romantically involved. A version of Trump’s social media post was discovered to still be posted on one of his presidential campaign websites two weeks ago, and Engoron fined him$ 5,000. After Trump left the courtroom on Wednesday and went on to tell the media that Engoron and the person” sitting alongside him” were partisans— the latter of which was a clear reference to the clerk of the king — Engorone fined him an additional$ 10,000 after that.
Engoron ordered Trump to take the witness stand and, under oath, tell the truth about who he was referring to after Trump’s attorneys denied that the clerk was the sole person sitting next to the judge in the Manhattan courtroom. When Trump claimed it was actually his former fixer, Michael Cohen, who had testified that morning from a lower level witness stand about 10 feet away from the judge, Engoron declared Trump to be an unreliable witness and fined him$ 10,000.
After that afternoon, Cohen testified that his claim that Trump had no instructed him to inflate property values in 2019 was true. Cohen testified last week that he and former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg inflated property values on bank-received paperwork, but that Trump previously gave them the go-ahead to alter any particular assessments and instead made it clear in his signals to them that they should increase his overall net worth on paper. When Engoron declined to dismiss the case right away due to Cohen’s convoluted responses, Trump stormed out of the courtroom.
Trump attempted to link the two incidents with a conspiracy theory in his most new Truth Social post.
Trump wrote, seemingly paraphrasing what Cohen said on the witness stand,” He’s an out of control Nut Job who fined me$ 10,000 over a ridiculous Gag Order so that the publicity for the day would take over from the fact that Racist James and the Star Witness admitted LYING TO CONGRESS.” Cohen claimed to have told the truth to Congress. Additionally, Trump’s theory ignores the fact that Cohen was fined$ 10,000 by Engoron prior to his testimony.
According to a filing made by his attorney, Trump paid the total of$ 15, 000 he owed the court for breaking the gag orders this past weekend.
On November 1, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump are scheduled to testify; on November 2, they will. On November 6, Trump is scheduled to give a testimony. This week, three of Donald Trump’s eldest adult children will give testimony in the$ 250 million civil fraud case that New York Attorney General Letitia James brought against him. Judge Arthur Engoron confirmed last week that Ivanka Trump will testify in the case, which had long seemed probable that Trump, and probably Eric Trump would do so.
Donald Trump’s three oldest adult children will be called to testify in the $250 million civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia J. James against him. It was long expected that Trump and Eric Trump would testify in the case. Last week, Judge Arthur Engoron confirmed Ivanka Trump’s testimony.
John Nacion captured a photo for ZUMA Press. Join Mother Jones to become informed and battle misinformation. This week Donald Trump’s three oldest kids will give evidence in the court case of the $250 million civil deception that New York Attorney General Letitia James has initiated against him. It has been expected for quite some time that President Trump and his son, Eric Trump, could be called to testify in this case. Recently, Judger Arthur Engoron made it known that Ivanka Trump must also appear in court, as well as Donald Trump Jr. This lawsuit revolves around whether or not there was deception on the part of the former president, who allegedly stated he had more money than was accurate to obtain beneficial loan and policy conditions. Prior to the trial commencing, Engoron supported James by stating there had been a large amount of data provided and that the trail was specifically to assess what fee Trump should be obligated to pay. Trump, after becoming agitated with Engoron’s decision last week and leaving the courtroom hastily, has now expressed rage with the latest ruling to make his children take the stand. Trump inaccurately implied that the clerk was in a romantic connection with Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Two weeks ago, a monetary penalty of $5,000 was imposed on Trump by Engoron after they recognized that a modified edition of one of the posts from Trump’s social media profile was still present on one of his presidential campaign sites. Engoron assessed a penalty of $10,000 to Trump after he left the courtroom on Wednesday and afterward reported to the press that Engoron and the person nearby were partial, unmistakably alluding to the clerk accompanying Engoron. When Trump’s legal advisors denied any correlation to the clerk—the lone individual who sits close to the judge in the courtroom in Manhattan—Engoron commanded Trump to be sworn in and truthfully declare who he was referring to. When Trump alleged it was his earlier lawyer, Michael Cohen, who had testified just that morning from the stand, approximately 33 feet from the judge and in a lower stage, Engoron accepted Trump was not reliable and imposed the $10,000 fine. Later that day, Cohen declared he had not been false to Congress in 2019 when he mentioned Trump hadn’t instructed him to increase the worth of possessions.
