Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, both two of the adult children of ex-President Donald Trump, will soon be testifying as part of the New York trial covering a case from state Attorney General Letitia James that alleges a sweeping, years-long pattern of financial misrepresentations at the Trump family business.
Their testimony will take place within mere days, with Donald Jr. set to take the stand on November 1, which is Wednesday. Eric — who, like his brother, is formally named in James’ case — will testify the following day, while Ivanka Trump is set to testify on Friday of this week. As trial proceedings in the already lengthy case wound down last week, presiding Judge Arthur Engoron rejected an attempt by Ivanka’s team to get her out of showing up for questioning. She’d originally also been named in the case but was removed by a state court on statute of limitations concerns.
Donald himself is also set to testify — again — in the New York proceedings. He is presently scheduled to take the stand at the beginning of next week, meaning November 6.
Him sitting for questioning related to the substance of the case will follow him already facing questioning in court from the judge tied to antagonistic comments he’d made just outside the courtroom. Engoron took that commentary as applying to a clerk of his who Trump previously targeted — and since a gag order came after that earlier incident, Engoron imposed a nominal fine of $10,000. The judge has repeatedly threatened steeper penalties if Trump’s violations of the order continue. Engoron found Trump’s denials he was referring to the clerk in his latest angry commentary to be simply not credible.
Eric Trump has repeatedly come up in the trial already, with an evident discrepancy emerging between prior remarks he made in a deposition and the actual facts of the case. An individual from the real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield evidently indicated to the court that Eric advocated to him for a particular set of valuations… despite Eric claiming he wasn’t involved in such discussions and focused instead on the direct work of development/construction.
