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.
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Did Ivanka Trump lie in court last week?
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 was buried 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. The problem was, he wasn’t. So, Ivanka lent him some cash to help create an illusion of wealth.
Per Mary Trump:
[Donald’s] net worth was too low. His solution? To have his kids help prop up the facade.
On the stand during Donald’s New York City fraud trial, Ivanka testified that Donald’s adult children agreed to allow Donald to use their assets in order to help inflate his net worth thereby satisfying the bank’s requirements for a loan that was his alone.
The whole thing reminds us of that infamous quote from Ivanka’s 2009 self-help book The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life, in which her ghostwriter she wrote:
If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true. This doesn’t mean you should be duplicitous or deceitful, but don’t go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.
Except in this case, it sounds like Trump & Co. were both duplicitous and deceitful. Ivanka admitted as much while under oath.
Mary notes that MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin called Ivanka’s testimony jaw-dropping, saying “He was borrowing money from his kids’ piggy banks. I almost dropped my phone on the floor. I was just astonished by the proof that Donald Trump was robbing Peter to pay Paul, so to speak.”
Trump’s fraud trial is expected to run through December, with the ex-president scheduled to testify again on December 11 as the final witness. Closing arguments are scheduled for January 11, just four days before the Iowa primary in which Republican voters will decide whether to re-nominate him for president.
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Ivanka and Jared just got caught in some real shady behavior & it’s raising all sorts of questions
The couple took out a $15 million loan on a $24 million property in Miami they purchased in 2021.
abfab
The long, slow burn.
ShaverC
OMG Mary is ridiculous. Most super wealthy people still have mortgages because they can make MORE money by not locking the entire $24million into a house, but instead get a $15million mortgage at an extremely low interest rate and use that their money to make investments that will bring in even more profit.
abfab
Thank you Suzie Orman. So what’s your point? Oh, nevernind?
Gay Thomas
Oh the irony. You never seem to have a point.
abfab
Irony is dead.
abfab
Thank you, Sandra Day and rest in peace.
In a separate concurring opinion, Justice O’Connor said that rather than voting directly to overrule Bowers v. Hardwick, she was voting to strike down the Texas sodomy law on the alternative ground of equal protection. By making sodomy a crime for same-sex but not opposite-sex couples, she said, Texas “makes homosexuals unequal in the eyes of the law” and “brands all homosexuals as criminals.”
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Very little could happen without Justice O’Connor’s support when it came to the polarizing issues on the court’s docket, and the law regarding affirmative action, abortion, voting rights, religion, federalism, sex discrimination and other hot-button subjects was basically what Sandra Day O’Connor thought it should be.
NYT
Baron Wiseman
“Bitter!”…party of one.
I’m glad Mary has a hobby, if not, obsession.
abfab
^GQP MAGA TROLL
Diplomat
Oh Abless,
Just go get arrested in the women’s showers at the ymca. You’ll feel so much better getting your groove on. Ya perv-troll.
BLAKENOW
Wow MR Ignorant Wiseman, Are you dying own your sphincter orange too? It does;t really matter no one but you will see it anyway,
abfab
WHITE TRASH
By Martha Ross
The Mercury News
While president, Donald Trump made sexual comments about his daughter Ivanka in front of his employees that were so lewd and disturbing that he was rebuked by his one-time chief of staff John Kelly, a former Trump official writes in a new book.
“Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that prompted Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,” writes Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, in his new book, according to Newsweek.
Taylor is the official who penned the blistering 2018 New York Times Op-Ed about the former president under the pen name “Anonymous.” In his new book, “Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump,” Taylor uses Trump’s alleged comments about his beloved oldest daughter, who worked as his senior presidential adviser, to illustrate the almost daily instances of “naked sexism” in the Trump White House, Newsweek reported.
The sexism was so bad that one senior female official told Taylor: “This is not a healthy workplace for women.”
Baron Wiseman
@abfab
Did President Trump shower with his daughter like President Biden did with his young daughter? We happen to know that Biden showered with his daughter Ashley as she wrote about it in her diary that she left behind at a rehab facility.
Tell me abfab, do you think it’s a good idea for a grown man to take showers with his young daughter?
Gay Thomas
@BaronWiseman
I’ll take Things That Never Happened for 1000, Alex.
Stop being such an easily manipulated moron.
Baron Wiseman
@Gay Thomas
Ashley Biden believes his alleged showering with her could have helped create her s€x addiction.
Alleged January 2019 (pages 17-18) diary entry by Ashley Biden:
“I have always been boy crazy. Hyper-s€xualized @ a young age…I remember somewhat being sexualized with [a family member]; I remember having s€x with friends @ a young age; showers w/my dad (probably not appropriate).”
ShaverC
Gay Thomas, The Biden administration admitted the diary went missing, it’s hers. I can only imagine what went on behind that family’s closed doors and it’s very scary. But you are the type of person who will see the pix of Hunter Biden high as f*ck with two h**kers and you just say “oh he’s tired and those are his nurses”
Creamsicle
@Baron
Bathing with your children is an extremely normal thing to do. The fact that you are projecting some kind of nefarious motivations onto that says more about you than about anyone else.
Trump has publicly made sexual comments about his daughter, Ivanka. I don’t think that he necessarily does want to have sex with her, but I do think that it indicates he only sees women as accessories to a man. He has no idea how to have a more normal relationship with a woman.
ShaverC
Creamsicle, It’s not an infant in the tub with Biden… He stepped into the shower with her, n*de, when she was 12-ish. If that is normal to you, then you need to turn yourself into the police now.
Baron Wiseman
@Creamsicle
Well, apparently Ashley Biden didn’t think it was a very good idea by her diary entry. I have heard of same sex family members bathing together; never opposite sex.
So do you think it is a good idea for a grown man to shower with his young daughter?
abfab
Say what you will but Biden is here and you are both raving lunatics. We all need a shower just hearing you two GOP DROP OUTS, Shaver and Wiseman, talk about this ”alleged” shower scene.
Diplomat
All women hate your Trans self for attacking them en mass. Most men hate you for attacking women. Dems and Rs alike think your’re scum. You’re a dim wit fool to think dems don’t hate your guts like everyone else. You’re ass is ground meat as a minority.
Just go get arrested in the women’s showers at the ymca and get it over with. We know you crave negative attention. You’ll feel so much better getting your groove on. Ya trans perv-troll.
abfab
This POS is also dick.
Trump doesn’t have presidential immunity from lawsuits over January 6, appeals court rules December 1, 2023
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NateOcean
Oh, this actually *IS* significant. For my home loan, you are warned explicitly that you can’t borrow from family members (etc.) just to puff up your bank balance, if the true intent is that it’s really just a loan.
abfab
Republican humor. Hey. These lunatics who hang out here should consider auditioning:
The Daily Wire Sets Adult Animated Comedy Series ‘Mr Birchum’ Starring Adam Carolla, Megyn Kelly, Brett Cooper, Roseanne Barr, Candace Owens, Danny Trejo & More
By Andreas Wiseman
International Editor
Diplomat
Absies,
The loon is you. You can’t even back why men belong in women’s showers bc your too stupid. And a coward.
abfab
One of the TROLLS here is def Candace Owens. Hello Candace. And WTF has become of Paris Dennard? He was very funny.
Openminded
Trump is obviously a crook, and a typical New York businessman who has no conscience. If a New Yorker can talk you into something, it’s not being crooked in their minds, it’s considered being a good salesman.
Just like all Trumps, Mary is in it for the money also. She spews these alleged family secrets under the guise that she wants to warn and inform the country how pathetic DT is. Fact is, she shares these secrets in an effort to get you to sign on to her “newsletter”. When anybody sells info for financial gain, it makes that info questionable. I’m not at all defending Trump’s actions and hope he doesn’t get the GOP nod for 2024, but Mary’s opinions have zero credibility in my book. Just another whore for sale.
abfab
Another Openmided blanket statement. He knows New Yorkers. Sure.
abfab
ps………….Thank you Mary. You’re cool. Pay no attention to these men who suck up to Donald. It’s disgusting.