Donald Trump and his children Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka will be in the spotlight during a New York civil trial dealing with Trump’s business practices.
Then-President-elect Donald Trump attends a news conference with his three eldest children — from left, Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. — at Trump Tower in New York in January 2017. Donald Trump had been a pariah on Wall Street for years when a banker in Deutsche Bank’s private wealth department started speaking with his daughter Ivanka. After a number of meetings, the banker emailed a supervisor in 2011“Ivanka Trump will become a client for sure.
The relationships between Trump and his three eldest children are likely to be on display over the next two weeks, as Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka are all scheduled to take the witness stand in the civil fraud trial in New York over the Trump Organization’s business practices. Donald Jr. Trump, 45, is up first, scheduled to appear on Wednesday; Eric Trump, 39, is scheduled to appear the following day, and Ivanka Trump, 42, on Nov. 8. Trump himself is scheduled to testify on Monday.
A lawyer for Ivanka Trump did not respond to a request for comment, and a lawyer for Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump declined to comment. But Trump’s children have not been that involved in his current bid for the presidency, according to multiple campaign advisers. Three people close to the former president said Donald Jr. has the most interest, and that family members will probably serve as surrogates in the general election but that they are for the moment engaged in a cooling-off period from Trump’s world. Kushner, Trump’s most important aide in 2016 and 2020, has checked in only occasionally with campaign staff.
The most significant shift in Trump’s post-presidential family life has been the retreat of his wife and older daughter from public life. Ivanka Trumpher father’s formal reelection announcement last November, instead writing on Instagram that she did not “plan to be involved in politics.” He reported earning about $14.8 million in paid speeches in 2022 and 2023, collecting $250,000 from the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay Republican group, and about $2.3 million for four speeches from the American Freedom Tour, a group that staged for-profit Trump rallies. He made $2 million, the disclosure shows, giving two speeches to the Universal Peace Federation, a branch of the Unification Church.
In a subsequent deposition, he swatted away questions about why he disregarded the input of expert appraisers who advised that properties were worth less than he claimed, saying that “appraisers are right and wrong. Everybody knows that.”Trump has skipped campaigning in multiple weeks to attend days of the trial, sitting with his lawyers during lengthy testimony and scowling at the judge and witnesses.
Prosecutors then played a video clip of Eric Trump’s deposition taken in March, in which the president’s son suggested the appraiser was essentially a stranger.“I hardly recognize the name on here,” he said.In his March deposition, Eric Trump described himself as “a concrete guy” whom his father trusted to manage development and properties, rather than watch the company’s books“I’m not an accountant. I’m not a CPA. I’m not a valuation expert,” he said. “I don’t claim to be any of those things.
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