Donald Trump‘s $250 million civil fraud trail is still underway in New York, though things are winding down. The prosecution rested its case last month.
Now, the defense is currently making its arguments before Judge Arthur Engoron issues his ruling.The ex-president and his two adult sons, Don Jr.
and Eric, are accused of lying about the value of their family’s real estate portfolio to secure cheaper loans and insurance rates.Among the witnesses the prosecution called to the stand was none other than Ivanka Trump, who evaded answered questions for several hours, during which she used variations of the words “I don’t know”, “I don’t recall”, and “I don’t remember” over 30 times, with a few iterations of “Not that I’m aware of” thrown in for good measure.Ivanka Trump testified in her father’s $250 million civil fraud lawsuit in New York last Wednesday, but not everyone is buying what she had to say on the stand.That was a couple of weeks ago.
Since then, Ivanka’s cousin Mary Trump has pored over her entire testimony, and she just found that, nestled deep within it, is a small tidbit of information that could have huge ramifications.“This shocking admission wasburied so deeply within Ivanka’s testimony that the media largely missed it,” she writes in her latest Substack. “It seriously threatens the house of cards Donald has built (with cards taken entirely from the deck my grandfather gave him) and propped up with exaggeration, decades of lies, and corporate media complicity.”So, what did Ivanka say?Basically, the former first daughter testified that, in order to qualify for some loans, Trump needed to show Deutsche Bank that he was wealthy enough.