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Court dismisses Ivanka Trump's request to avoid testifying in trial against her father

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By Evaristo Lara

03 Nov 2023, 12:45 PM EDT

Although he claimed to face logistical problems in traveling and appearing at the civil fraud trial against his father in New York, A higher court denied any type of request that Ivanka Trump may present with the aim of evading the call of the authorities.

The team of lawyers representing the daughter of the former president of the nation had filed an appeal with the aim of not being called to testify, but His arguments were not convincing to Judge Arthur Engoron.

“EM. Trump, who resides in Florida with her three minor children, will suffer undue hardship if she is denied a suspension and required to testify at a trial in New York in the middle of a school week, in a case from which she has already been dismissed before. for his appeal to be heard,” the document stated.

In addition, The legal appeal sought for the court to suspend the rest of the trial, which was also denied.

It is unknown to what extent Ivanka Trump’s testimony may influence her father’s legal situation. (ALEX EDELMAN / AFP via Getty Images)

Unlike his sister, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump—who helped run the Trump Organization—have already come to give their testimony and the next to appear will be the nation’s former president, who on Wednesday morning issued a message with overtones of a declaration of war to the magistrate in charge of the trial.

“This rigged trial, brought by the racist Attorney General of the State of New York, Letitia James, before the Judge who hates Trump and the developers, Arthur Engoron, which should never have been brought before the so-called STAR WITNESS, Attorney SleazeBag (for many people) Michael Cohen admitted last week on the stand that he LIED. Therefore, based on that fact alone, this False Case should be dismissed.

There is no victim (except me!). Leave my children alone, Engoron. “You are a disgrace to the legal profession!” Trump wrote on the Truth Social platform.

Once the magnate has testified, all that remains is to listen to Ivanka Trump’s statement in order to try to establish which member of the family should be held responsible for having manipulated the information related to the amount of his fortune.an illegal practice aimed at reducing your tax payments.

So far, it has been mentioned that fines estimated at more than $250 million await Donald Trump’s companies.

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