Prosecutors grilled the former president’s son about why he signed off on allegedly inaccurate financial statements for the family real estate business.
took the stand on Thursday for a second day in his father’s New York civil fraud trial, and prosecutors hammered the twice-impeached’s son about why he signed off on reams of allegedly inaccurate financial statements for the family real estate business if he truly had nothing to do with them, as he continued to claim.
When the prosecution brought up a representation letter the Trump Organization provided to Mazars, the accounting firm which cut ties with the business last year while saying it could no longer stand behind some 10 years worth of financial statements it prepared for the company, Don Jr. acknowledged that he signed it but said he didn’t remember anything more about it specifically.
Judge Arthur Engoron, the subject of countless unhinged social media screeds by the former president, asked if Don Jr. had “anything to do with this statement of financial condition.” The Trump scion is accused, alongside his father and brother Eric, of misrepresenting the worth of the Trump Organization’s assets to gain favorable terms on loans and insurance, allegedly pushing valuations up or down to suit the company’s needs.reporter who inquired about apparent errors in the firm’s financial statements to Deutsche Bank, he dodged a question about intent, laying the responsibility for any due diligence at the bank’s feet.
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