Trump civil fraud case: Ivanka Trump told to take witness stand

Former US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump has been ordered to take the witness stand in the civil fraud case against her father, her brothers and their family business, a judge ruled on Friday (Oct 27).

A report in the NBC News cited Kevin Wallace of the Attorney Office claiming that they plan on calling Donald Trump Jr. to the stand on Wednesday, Eric Trump on Thursday and Ivanka Trump on Friday, and then their father Donald Trump on Monday, November 6, 2023. 

According to the company filings in the public domain, both of Donald Trump’s sons remain executives at Trump Organization.

Ivanka Trump was an executive till 2017.

The sons had been on Trump’s witness lists.

While Ivanka Trump’s inclusion in the list after the latest order remains the latest development, she had been challenging the Attorney General’s subpoena for her to testify. But on October 27, Judge Arthur Engoron dismissed an attempt by Trump’s lawyers to nullify a subpoena issued to Ivanka Trump by Attorney General Letitia James. However, Ivanka can appeal the decision until November 1.

Donald Trump and his sons are accused of inflating the value of the real estate of the Trump Organization for years in order to obtain more favourable bank loans and insurance terms.

Trump, however, does not risk going to jail in the case. But $250 million in penalties as well as the removal of Trump and his sons from management of the family real estate empire has been sought by the Attorney General.

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Trump has repeatedly denounced the trial as a Democratic witch hunt intended to derail his 2024 White House bid.

Ivanka Trump was an advisor to her father when he was the President. But she quit the Trump Organization in January 2017 when she and Jared Kushner, her husband were given the roles in the Trump administration.

But before 2017, Ivanka Trump served as an executive vice president in the Trump Organization. Reports in the US media claim that she was in close contact with group’s biggest lenders, Deutsche Bank.

(With inputs from agencies)

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