Ivanka Trump testified Wednesday that she received advice from her husband Jared Kushner about real estate financing deals for the Trump Organization, and he once told her she could “get better prices” for a project, according to emails shown at the trial. civil fraud of his father.
“My husband is also in real estate and we respect each other,” Ivanka, 41, said from the witness stand in Manhattan Supreme Court when asked about emails from lawyers in the prosecutor’s office. General of New York.
“It wasn’t unusual for me to ask my husband’s perspective on something I was working on,” the former first daughter said.
In a June 17, 2013 email chain shown by AG attorney Louis Solomon, Ivanka, then executive vice president of the Trump Org, asked her husband about a financing deal to convert the former Post Office building in Washington DC at what would become the Trump Hotel.
“You may get better prices,” Kushner, 42, wrote in an email.
His wife then asked another Trump Org employee to “send Jared the latest.”
In the next email, Ivanka asks Kushner, whom she married in 2009, if she should hire someone, eventually telling her husband, “I made the following deal with him.”
Ivanka Trump testified that she received advice from her husband Jared Kushner about real estate financing deals.Getty Images
Near the end of Ivanka’s testimony, Donald Trump’s lawyer, Jesús Suárez, was asking Ivanka about her work on the development of the former Post Office building, which the mother of three called a “labor of love.” .
“It was a lot of work to make that vision a reality,” Ivanka said, according to The Guardian.
During a series of questions about two local congressmen who asked Ivanka to speak about the project at a Brooklyn conference, Suarez suddenly turned to the attorney general’s lawyers, raised his voice and pointed.
“They’re sitting here laughing!” she shouted at the AG’s table. He added that “I’m glad the government thinks it’s funny… while they’re trying to destroy jobs in this state.”
It’s unclear whether the attorney general’s lawyers were actually laughing.
Judge Arthur Engoron, who is deciding the case, said he thought the attorney general’s office might have found it funny that Suarez – who is known for having a theatrical presence in the courtroom – had asked Ivanka if politicians were “ representatives of Congress” even though Ivanka had already declared that they were representatives to Congress three or four times.
Previously, Ivanka testified about her involvement in another company project, telling the court that her father had a “deep and nostalgic love” for the Doral Golf Club in Miami, Florida, which led him to purchase it in 2012 and rename it. like Trump. Doral National Golf Club.
Kushner once told his wife in an email chain that he could “get better prices” on a deal. Getty Images
Trump, 77, told Ivanka he was taking her mother, Ivana Trump, to the resort and that it had a top-notch spa, she testified.
“Between him being there with his dad on the golf course and me being there as a little girl… he had a lot of sentimental affection for the property and a strong feeling that it wasn’t living up to its potential,” she said. Ivanka. .
Businesswoman Trump added that her father had “a particular affinity for golf.”
Solomon, the attorney general’s lawyer, questioned Ivanka for about three hours about her involvement in the annual financial statements of her father, the real estate magnate.
Attorney General Letitia James claims Trump lied in these statements for a decade, exaggerating his wealth by billions to obtain better loan and insurance terms.
Ivanka denied having anything to do with preparing the financial documents, but emails showed she acknowledged the statements while helping secure financing for several Trump Org properties.
Ivanka was inquiring about a deal to convert the old post office building in Washington DC into what would become the Trump Hotel.ZUMAPRESS.com
While Trump initially floated the idea of purchasing both Doral and the former post office for cash, they eventually secured financing from Deutsche Bank, which was enthusiastic about its relationship with Trump’s real estate empire, Ivanka said, when asked by Suarez.
He confirmed that he received $4 million from the sale of the Trump Hotel in Washington DC in May 2022.
Ivanka and her siblings each owned 7.5% of the property and her father owned the remainder, 77.5%.
Solomon asked Ivanka how much she made from the sale, and she responded that she didn’t remember the “exact” amount, but then produced a document showing the former first daughter received $4 million from the deal.
“That’s what I remember,” Ivanka said then.
Just before her testimony ended, around 4:20 p.m., Ivanka was asked to reflect on her time at the Trump Organization, which she left in 2017 to work for her father in the White House.
“I feel incredibly proud of the work I did on the Trump Hotel and these two renovations specifically,” she said, referring to the Washington DC hotel and the Trump National Doral Golf Club.
He said his efforts “required a lot of vision and hard work.”
“They were difficult projects, but we met all the indicators,” he added.
Ivanka was the attorney general’s final witness and Trump’s side will begin calling witnesses on Monday.
The trial is scheduled to end around December 15.
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