Eric Trump testified, and later contradicted himself, that he had no knowledge of the financial statements at the heart of the fraud case against his father.
Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization and son of former President Donald Trump, appears to have gotten twisted-up when questioned on his knowledge of his father’s financial statements that are at the heart of Trump’s New York business fraud case.
Eric took the witness stand for the first time Thursday after his elder brother, Donald Trump Jr., finished up cross-examination that same morning. Trump’s two oldest sons are listed alongside their father as defendants in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ $250 million lawsuit, which accuses the Trump Organization of misvaluing its assets for financial gains. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.
Assistant Attorney General Andrew Amer hammered Eric Trump before the court’s lunch break Thursday on his involvement in the Trump Organization’s statements of financial condition—the documents behind the misvaluing of Trump’s assets that could sink the former president’s businesses.
According to reporting by The Messenger correspondent Adam Klasfeld, Eric Trump told Amer that he « never had anything to do with the statements of financial condition.
