Is Ivanka Trump about to spill the beans?
At least one member of the family thinks so!
Mary Trump, who’s seemingly enjoying her deranged uncle’s legal perils, just predicted the eldest Trump daughter will flip on her dad if she testifies in his $250 million civil fraud trial.
“She’s just going to tell the truth and throw him under the bus,” she told the journalist Molly Jong-Fast.
For months, Ivanka has been trying to extricate herself from her daddy’s fraud case, in which he’s accused of lying about the value of his real estate portfolio to secure cheaper rates from banks and insurers.
While an appeals court dismissed all charges against the former first daughter, New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking her testimony. That propelled Ivanka to try and squash her subpoena, with her lawyers arguing she wasn’t properly served.
Last week, Judge Arthur Engoron denied Ivanka’s request. She was originally slated to take the witness stand Friday, but Engoron pushed her date back to next Wednesday, November 8.
That’s not a good sign! Reports indicate Engoron switched dates, because he thinks prosecutors are going to need more time to get through all the questions they have. Court sessions usually only last half a day on Fridays, whereas Wednesday is a full day.
Yikes!
With that in mind, Ivanka is still fighting the ruling. On Wednesday, she filed an appeal in yet another attempt to avoid testifying.
Ivanka, who served as a senior advisor in the Trump White House, is trying everything to distance herself from her family’s legal woes. But she keeps getting dragged into them, despite her best efforts.
Forbes recently published a lengthy expose about how she helped her dad inflate the values of his properties and lie about his net worth. Much like her old man, she exaggerated the size of her family’s properties, increasing the number of acres.
The writer Dan Alexander says the Trumps “had a habit of noting the per-acre price of a smaller parcel and throwing out a puffed-up number of acres, thus leaving the impression that the property must have been more valuable than it actually was.”
Earlier in the trial, it was revealed that a Trump Park Avenue penthouse was valued at two and a half times higher in business records than the price Ivanka was quoted when she was considering buying the apartment.
James’ lawsuit also alleges Ivanka was offered an even bigger penthouse in the same building for roughly $30 million less than it was valued.
In other words, Ivanka is deeeeep in this, which is probably why she’s trying so damn hard to slaw her way out of it. Mary contends she’ll do anything to save herself.
She’s previously compared Ivanka to her grandfather, Fred Trump Sr., whom she’s called a “high-functioning sociopath.”
“She actually reminds me of my grandfather a little bit,” Mary said, “which is not a compliment.”
In the aforementioned interview, Mary says she doesn’t think Ivanka will hesitate to turn on her father, because he would do the same thing.
“[He would] throw her under the bus if he needed to, because he doesn’t care about anybody,” she said.
Trump’s two dunderhead son, Eric and Don Jr., are also listed as defendants in the case. Don Jr. testified Wednesday, and is back on the stand today.
Eric is expected to take the stand today as well.
In his testimony Wednesday, Don Jr. blamed the Trump Organization’s accounting firm for any errors.
This feels like a scene from a mockumentary style show
— Julie (@juliek_sd) November 2, 2023
You can see how much it pains him that no one laughed.
— Jamie Giffin (@Cynics_throne) November 2, 2023
Making family matters even more interesting, the ex-president himself is scheduled to testify next week as well. Mary has no doubt he’ll betray his kids, if necessary.
She says that’s something they’ll all have to consider as they face questioning.
“They’re going to have to walk a very thin line between obfuscating in a way that’s not perjury and appeasing their father’s ego so that he doesn’t throw them under the bus when he testifies, which of course he’s going to do no matter what they do,” she said.
In this version of Trump Hunger Games, it looks like selling out the others is the only way to survive.
abfab
No amount of makeup on this planet would mask your hideousness or your ugly mug. But Jr, your daddy has tons of the shit, by the paint-can loads in his bunker. Tomorrow, sweetie.
Baron Wiseman
@abfab
Are you a comedian?
abfab
He must be sitting on 3 NYC phone books. He’s very homely.
Baron Wiseman
@abfab
Wow. Another zinger! Watch out, he’s on a roll!
abfab
Baron. Eat shit.
rphillips4165
Everyone keeps forgetting Ivanka sat for a what was it six or eight hour deposition earlier this year. I personally think she flipped then. And yes I know it wasn’t about this trial. But she can’t contradict anything she said then. Because then it will be used against her. And if they did give her a deal back then. And just haven’t told anyone. She for sure can’t say anything different. So yeah. She’s stuck. But Jared has more money than Trump so he can keep her safe then. But Trump will sic his minions on her if she does turn.
woodroad34
Anybody who does a tax return through an accountant or other tax preparer knows that they, alone–not the preparer, are responsible for the accuracy of their income declarations. Not only does DJTJ and Fredo try to dodge their responsibility, but they throw Weiselberg under the bus.
abfab
His kids never learned simple math. Neither did he.
Baron Wiseman
@abfab
You should write for late night comedians! Hilarious. I think you have found your new calling!
whereshouldistart
Baron…is that the only comeback you have?
You should keep your day job.
SoPluckyWhat
Barron only has a night job. Give him a break. Being a “night” worker is harrrrrrddd!!
kipkipple
you quash a subpoena not squash it
Mr. Stadnick
Gramma and spelling have no place here.
csalapatas
Why does anyone put any credence into this crazy vindictive Mary Trump? She knows nothing about the family because they don’t speak to her so all of this is make-believe that she whips up… Really disturbing that the Press insists I’m using her ridiculous comments.
whereshouldistart
They didn’t have to speak to her for her to have witnessed over half a century of corruption. It’s interesting how you skipped the part where they stole her inheritance.
Her profession helps her since I’m pretty sure they now teach “trump” in place of narcissism and pathological lying in Psychology 101.
Of course, trump supporters wouldn’t know that since one of the requirements for college or university is an IQ over 40.
SoPluckyWhat
Maybe ask your doctor next time you go?
Jaesly
Why do you trolls keep insisting on defending a man who wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire? And don’t give me your nonsense about “Sleepy Joe” and the “Biden Crime Family”. Hunter Biden could be Jack the Ripper and that wouldn’t excuse Trump’s fraud or dementia.
abfab
@csalapatas
new name, same bullshit, word for word
trell
@csalaptas – So far, she’s had a pretty good track record, and she has 100% more personal insight into the workings and machinations of the Trump family psychology and history than you or any of your MAGA friends.
It’s also nice to have one insider who actually has a brain and some sociological nouse to be able to logically and fairly assess the mindset of a powerful, bullying sociopath as he publicly goes into meltdown while simultaneously tries to keep a stronghold of his fanbase.
abfab
Junior in makeup. He’s a clueless hack.
dbmcvey
It’s amazing how many time that oxymoron troll posts considering he has nothing to say.
Baron Wiseman
@dbmcvey
Ditto
abfab
Ditto. Now there’s an entire sentence of nothing, Baroness.
Shhhhh, she’s at the Florida Freedom Summit with her whole family that lives in Florida. Losers. She’s watching as the great unwashed pour into the Sunshine State from California.