Ivanka Trump’s courtroom sketches on the witness stand in her father’s civil fraud trial in New York were mocked online, with some sarcastic critics accusing the artist of being “jealous” of the former prime minister. daughter and committing a creative “crime.”
Ivanka, 41, was represented on the stand Wednesday by courtroom artist Jane Rosenberg, whose sketch of a disdainful Donald Trump at his appearance in Manhattan in April for falsifying business records in connection with alleged payments of “money to keep the silence” to former porn star Stormy Daniels went viral. and appeared on the cover of the New Yorker.
But many online observers said the Reuters artist’s rendition of Trump’s designer-clad daughter, showing her long blonde hair framing her face, who had a pensive expression as she was questioned by state prosecutors, was unflattering.
“Damn, what did Ivanka Trump do to that court cartoonist? This looks like a grudge,” one person posted on X.
“This cartoonist should be charged with a crime!” wrote another.
Some even went so far as to suggest that Rosenberg was drawing out of spite.
A prosecutor shows Ivanka Trump multiple pieces of evidence on the witness stand as defense attorney Christopher Kise objects during the Trump Organization civil fraud trial before Judge Arthur Engoron on Wednesday.REUTERS
“Someone else who is incredibly jealous of Ivanka Trump and her stunning beauty must have drawn this court sketch,” one person wrote on X.
Others came to Rosenberg’s defense, with one person suggesting it was one of the “best performances” they had seen in the courtroom, where cameras were prohibited.
Ivanka, a mother of three and a businesswoman who modeled in her youth, reluctantly took the stand in Manhattan Supreme Court in the $250 million lawsuit brought against her father and brothers Donald Jr. and Eric by the attorney general of New York, Letitia James.
James concluded his case Wednesday, but not before Ivanka, the state’s final witness, was pressed about her role in obtaining loans for the Trump Organization and about an apartment she rented from her father.
Some accused cartoonist Jane Rosenburg of making an unflattering portrait of the 41-year-old.REUTERS
The former president, 77, is accused of inflating the value of his assets over a decade in financial documents by up to $2.2 billion in one year to obtain better loan and insurance terms.
Rosenberg’s sketch became the stuff of late-night television, with NBC’s “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon joking that he was excited to “complete it.” [his] “Trump Courtroom Sketch Trading Card Set.”
The gag also included fake Topps-style trading cards of former president and current GOP 2024 presidential front-runner Eric and Don Jr., who had asked Rosenberg to “make me look sexy” when he took the stand in the case. James last time. week, he said she.
Rosenberg, who apologized in 2015 for not making former NFL star Tom Brady look “as handsome as he really is” during his “Deflategate” testimony, told The Post on Thursday that he thought Ivanka was “incredibly beautiful.” “.
“It’s very difficult to capture the subtleties of his image in such a short time,” Rosenberg said. “It’s soft and perfect! Tell my models to stay still and give me more time! Apologies to Ivanka!
Rosenberg added that it was not easy to be targeted by keyboard critics, writing in an email: “This attack on courtroom artists is really hard to take.”
After eight days and dozens of prosecution witnesses, the defense will have the opportunity to call witnesses to testify starting Monday.
Trump, who is by far the leading candidate in polls for the Republican Party nomination and leads presumptive Democratic nominee President Biden in five key states, faces having to pay millions as well as the loss of his empire. New York real estate.
While he is not at risk of prison in the civil case, he faces hundreds of years behind bars in four criminal cases in Washington, New York, Florida and Georgia, for which he is charged with 91 felonies in total. .
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