What you missed in the Trump fraud trial yesterday was the Trump sons and their very persistant memory problems. Also Don Jr. blaming the accountants -- even though he was supplying the numbers to the accountants.
"The attorney general's lawyer doesn't disguise the fact that Donald Trump Jr., who his father famously refers to as a kid in order to infantalize him, was -- he not only signed financial statements to banks and lenders, he certified that that information was true and accurate, and he did that to Deutsche Bank repeatedly. He also did that to his accountants," Lisa Rubin said.
"Donald Trump Jr. wants everybody to think he got a fast one over on people by saying, 'oh, God, what did I do? I relied on accountants to do accounting.' The problem is, when you are a fiduciary, and when you're a trustee, you don't get to pass that buck. The buck stops with you. Donald Trump Jr., who outsourced everything in his life, wasn't willing to concede that."
Then they talked about Eric.
"Close watchers of the organization realize he has been the one the father left in control of his major projects, including overseas golf courses, some in the states, as well," she said.
"Eric Trump was much more combative. He refused to give an inch. That's particularly true when he was confronted with some of his deposition testimony from earlier in the case.
"He's given two depositions in this case. One infamously during the investigative stage, where he took the Fifth hundreds of times. A later one, this last May, where he did testify for seven hours and repeatedly disclaimed that he knew people who were involved in appraisals and evaluations, that he was involved in the statements of financial condition, and he was confronted over a series of hours with document upon document that showed that, irrespective of his falsity memory, that simply was not the case."
And next week, it's Ivanka!
"Ivanka Trump had asked for a delay in her testimony because the date fell on a school week. She has children, was her argument. Looks like the judge rejected that," Willie Geist said.
"The judge did reject it. It is actually the appellate division, the intermediate appellate court in New York said, 'No, we're not going to let you stay your testimony. You can continue with your appeal.'
"Ivanka is up for Wednesday. we should expect to see her then. Her father on Monday. How that is going to go is really anyone's guess," Rubin said.
