Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday slammed New York Attorney General Letitia James and a New York judge for requiring his daughter Ivanka to testify in a Manhattan courtroom in a civil case involving the family real estate business.
Ms. Trump will be the state’s final witness in the trial of a lawsuit that alleges the former president and his adult sons submitted fraudulent financial statements to gain favorable terms on loans and insurance. After her testimony, the defense can present its case.
“My wonderful and beautiful daughter, Ivanka, is going to the Lower Manhattan Courthouse, at the direction of Letitia Peekaboo James, the Corrupt and Racist New York State Attorney General, who has allowed Murder and Violent Crime in New York to flourish, and a Trump Hating, out of control Clubhouse appointed Judge, Arthur Engoron, who viciously ruled against me before the trial even started,” Mr. Trump, the front-runner for the GOP 2024 presidential nomination, wrote on Truth Social.
Ms. Trump worked in the Trump White House, but has distanced herself from politics and her father’s latest campaign.
She tried to avoid testifying against her father and brothers. Unlike them, she is not a target of the lawsuit.
But Judge Engoron decided her business ties to New York made her a worthwhile witness.
“Ivanka was a senior executive at the organization who secured more favorable loans by using Trump’s fraudulent statements of financial condition,” Ms. James wrote on X. “You cannot cheat for personal gain.”
Mr. Trump said on his social media site that it is unfair to bring his daughter into the case.
“Sad!” he wrote.
• Tom Howell Jr. can be reached at thowell@washingtontimes.com.
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