Ivanka’s Testimony Over Donald’s Fraud Case Is Turning Heads

Ivanka Trump took a page from Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump’s courtroom playbook when she took the witness stand on Wednesday. Ivanka repeatedly denied creating or contributing to any of her father, Donald Trump’s inflated financial documents during the interrogation, according to the New York Post. Ivanka also reportedly said “I don’t recall” to a string of the state’s inquiries about her involvement in securing various bank loans with Deutsche Bank for Donald Sr.’s companies. “I’m not involved. I didn’t know anything about it,” Ivanka replied after being interrogated about Donald Sr.’s “statements of financial conditions.” Despite Ivanka’s assertions, several of her in-depth emails discussing her father’s financial deals were presented as evidence in court.

Ivanka also fielded additional questions about an inflated evaluation of her New York penthouse, which she leased from her father. According to CNN, Ivanka claimed she didn’t know why the $8.5 million property was listed at over $20 million on Donald Sr.’s financial statements. “As I had told you a year-and-a-half ago, I wasn’t involved in his statement of financial condition, so I can’t say what it took into account or didn’t take into account,” said Ivanka. She also cited Donald Sr.’s accountants as the parties who would be privy to that information. “I don’t specifically know what was prepared on his behalf for him as a person separate and distinct from the organization and the properties that I was working on, so no I don’t know how they did that and who prepared that and the mechanisms like that,” she continued.