According to one former Donald Trump White House official who spent a great deal of time around Ivanka Trump, she expects Trump's oldest daughter will stress making herself look good in a Manhattan courtroom next week at the expense of her family.
With Ivanka, Don Jr. and Eric Trump scheduled to testify in Judge Arthur Engoron's courtroom this coming week as part of the $250 million civil lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James, former White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews claimed she has a good idea what will transpire.
Speaking with MSNBC host Alex Witt, Matthews explained, "They are a close-knit family and while they have their issues, I don't know that she is going to want to put them in a bad situation and, obviously, because then it will reflect back on her and will look poorly on her and her father."
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"So I think that she is going to be careful with her words and try to protect her family," she continued before adding the caveat, "But, at the end of the day, something I knew very well from working with Jared [Kushner] and Ivanka in the White House was that they were always concerned with their own reputations first."
"We saw this in news stories all the time where, if Trump would enact a policy or tweet something vile out, then in the reporting it would always be, 'Oh, Jared and Ivanka disagreed though or they tried to push back,'" she elaborated. "So, they were always trying to make themselves look good in the media and I think that she is going to be very concerned with how she is coming across with her testimony and be very guarded. So that's going probably be a bigger factor than trying to protect her family."
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