Donald Trump Jr. 'thought he got fast one over' on the court and he failed: legal expert

A legal analyst who sat through two days of Donald Trump Jr's testimony in the $250 million financial fraud lawsuit argued on Friday that the president's eldest son needs a reality check if he walked away thinking he did well.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," legal analyst Lisa Rubin suggested Donald Trump's oldest son's testimony was "damning" to the Trump Organization's defense against the civil suit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Speaking with co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist, Rubin stated that Don Jr. appears to believe he did well but that Judge Arthur Engoron easily saw through his attempts to pass the blame onto others for committing financial fraud.

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Asked by Geist what she saw in the courtroom, she replied, "Willie, I'll say this again, every day in court on this matter is like a roller coaster and certainly yesterday was no exception."

"The examination of Donald Trump Jr. was one that seemed really calm and placid on the surface but was really damning if you think about what they got him to admit," she explained. "The fact that it was relatively pleasant in terms of the exchange with him and the attorney general's lawyer doesn't disguise the fact that Donald Trump Jr., who his father famously refers to as 'a kid' in order to infantilize him, was actually the co-trustee of what effectively was the Trump Organization for the entirety of the presidency."

"And in that capacity he not only signed financial statements over to banks and lenders, he certified that that information was true and accurate," she elaborated, "and he did that to Deutsche Bank repeatedly. He also did that to Mazars, his accountants."

"Donald Trump Jr. wants everybody to think he got a fast one over on people by saying, 'Oh, god, what did I do? I relied on accountants to do accounting,'" she explained. "The problem is, when you are a fiduciary, and when you're a trustee, you don't get to pass that buck. The buck stops with you. Donald Trump Jr., who has outsourced everything in his life, wasn't willing to concede that."

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