Ivanka is Trump's 'last hope' in fraud trial — and she'll let him down: legal experts

Donald Trump is expected to finally take the stand on Monday to testify in the $250 million civil trial filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James and there seems little he can do or say to keep his Trump Organization from being torn asunder when Judge Arthur Engoron makes his final ruling.

According to legal expert Norm Eisen and former Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, it is likely that the former president sees his daughter Ivanka Trump's testimony as his "last hope" to stop the bleeding after his sons Donald Jr. and Eric had a rough time of it when they were grilled last week.

As Eisen and Warren see it, Ivanka Trump won't be the former president's "saving grace" because she has already demonstrated that, when push comes to shove, she always ends up looking out for herself.

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Explaining that Donald Trump is expected to follow the same legal strategy that was out on display by his sons last week which centered on spreading the blame for falsified property valuations on company accountants and outsiders, the former president has to hope that Ivanka won't make matters worse when she takes the stand.

Referring to her testimony about the Jan. 6 insurrection where she parted company with her father and brothers and stated she didn't believe the election was stolen, Eisen and Warren wrote, "Of all his children, Ivanka has seemingly demonstrated the greatest willingness to speak honestly about her father," before adding, "Still, it is probably too much to expect that Ivanka will be fully candid when she testifies on Wednesday. Even her useful Jan. 6 testimony pulled some punches, and we can expect the same here."

"That will keep her out of hot water — but it will do little to help her father and the other co-defendants win the case," the added before predicting, "We are looking at a trial outcome that may strike a blow to Trump’s core in a way few other setbacks have. Combined with four looming federal and state criminal trials and several of his former enablers and accomplices pleading guilty in those or other proceedings — Michael Cohen, Allen Weisselberg, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, and Kenneth Chesebro — the former president may come to the same conclusion that many of us have reached: that the legal walls are finally closing in."

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