Posted on 10/27/2023 10:47:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
The New York judge overseeing the civil trial against former President Donald Trump and his business has ordered the ex-president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, to take the stand and testify in the case against her family.
Judge Arthur Engeron made the ruling Friday after a lengthy back-and-forth with defense attorneys who said Mr. Trump’s daughter left the Trump Organization in 2017 and had been dismissed from the civil case, so forcing her to testify amounted to harassment of the Trumps.
The judge said Ivanka Trump conducted business in New York and owns property there, so her testimony is relevant. He said Ms. Trump could appeal the decision and would not have to testify before Wednesday.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing a lawsuit claiming Mr. Trump and his business manipulated financial statements to gain favorable terms on insurance and loans.
Her office said Ivanka Trump has relevant information despite not being a party to the case.
“She indisputably has personal knowledge of facts relevant to the claims against the remaining individual and entity defendants. But even beyond that, Ms. Trump remains financially and professionally intertwined with the Trump Organization and other defendants and can be called as a person still under their control,” the attorney general’s office said in a court filing.
The trial, which is wrapping up its fourth week, has featured testimony from former accountants and Trump lawyer-turned-fixer Michael Cohen, who piqued Ms. James’ interest by telling Congress years ago that Mr. Trump had a penchant for manipulating statements about his assets.
Mr. Trump and his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, are parties to the case and are expected to testify.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
“Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Yeah, it’s harassment and they probably hope to entrap her
So apparently we all just exist to serve at the pleasure of those who get rich off making war funded by the tax dollars deposited in the treasuries of nations.
I’ll never forget. “War is good business. Invest your son.”
The earthly paradise had been discredited at exactly the moment when it became realizable. Every new political theory, by whatever name it called itself, led back to hierarchy and regimentation. And in the general hardening of outlook that set in round about 1930, practices which had been long abandoned, in some cases for hundreds of years — imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages, and the deportation of whole populations — not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.”
― George Orwell, 1984
How is the judge getting away with this?
Our legal system is a third world joke. SMH.
The Bernie Sanders look.
She’s too stupid to be smart on the stand, so she will testify and prattle on, thinking she can show how nothing wrong was done.
What she should do is like Hillary, Comey, Wray, Lerner, etc. Just say you don’t know, or can’t remember 150-200 times.
Oh, the sons, too. She is just now being added to the roasting spit.
From the article: "...Mr. Trump and his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, are parties to the case and are expected to testify...."
Oh, cross-examination will go well.
Emulate Fawn Hall. She seemed to be the one on top of all the facts that sort of blew the democratic juggernaut out of the water.
I remember when the only men who wore pink shirts were faggots.
And the Biden family are all criminals. And not harassed nor charged.
This angers a lot of people..
In the face of the nation.. Brazenly trying to control and destroy the one man that won’t be controlled. The courts, the judges, are either in with the corrupted or controlled by them
There will be a day.....
FEDEX
She’s a beautiful woman, the judge just wants to sit next to someone attractive for a change.
I wouldn't put it past her to cooperate. She and Schmendrickgonifputzschmuck got what they wanted. Maybe her childrens' friends parents will invite her and OY! Jared! to cocktail parties if she flips.
That's the one I was trying to think of! You are right!
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