Former President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump recently took to her Instagram account and posted a picture. Check it out below:
It has been noted that Ivanka Trump was cordial, disciplined, was controlled, and she was very courteous,” New York Attorney General Letitia James told reporters after Donald Trump’s eldest daughter testified in a fraud case against her father’s company on Wednesday.
“But her testimony raises questions with regards to its credibility,” James said of Ivanka Trump, arguing that “the documentary evidence” shows Trump’s eldest daughter was far more involved with her father’s scheme to defraud banks and tax assessors than her testimony let on.
James is focused, as she should be, on the voluminous evidence that the Trump Organization spent decades falsifying their books in order to cheat investors and taxpayers out of their money.
But what struck me about Ivanka Trump’s subdued time on the stand — which was heavily contrasted with her father’s hours of lying and tantrum-throwing from Monday — was how much their court strategy resembles the same tactics they used to initially defraud lenders over the years they were in business together.
As Dan Alexander at Forbes described last month, the Trumps had a system for bamboozling investors, lenders, journalists, and anyone else they were trying to manipulate for gain. Donald would do the initial pitch, employing his usual bombast and braggadocio while telling ridiculous tales of his allegedly fabulous wealth.
Then, just as the targets were in danger of eyestrain from the rolling, Ivanka would join, full of bubbly but soothing energy. Next to her father, Ivanka seemed smart, kind, and capable. Which was all an illusion, of course.
