Trump is New York’s final direct-case witness against her father and brothers; she said she had no role in net-worth statements the AG calls frauds.
Ivanka Trump took the stand as New York’s final direct-case witness against her father and brothers Wednesday, sticking to the company line by testifying she had only a dim memory of — and a hands-off relationship to — the net-worth statements at the center of the fraud trial.
New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges that over the course of a decade, Donald Trump’s annual net-worth statements — 30-page estimates used to win favorable terms on loans and insurance — inflated his actual worth by as much as $3.6 billion in a single year.
But in key morning testimony, Ivanka Trump repeatedly denied having any role in or recollection of the statements, even though they were crucial to the securing and maintaining of hundreds of millions of dollars in loans that she herself negotiated.
„Not that I am aware of, no,“ Ivanka Trump answered quietly, when asked if she had any role in preparing the statements.
„I don’t recall that, no“ she said, her voice still soft, when asked if she reviewed the statements before they were finalized.
She also tried — but ultimately failed — to distance herself from a 2011 celebratory email she sent other Trump Organization executives when Deutsche Bank offered a low-interest rate on a $12 million loan for her father’s Miami golf course.
