Ivanka Trump took the witness stand on Wednesday to speak at her father and brothers' civil fraud trial in New York — and she did far more harm to them than good.
That's the view of former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen, who broke down the day of legal events on CNN.
"Did Ivanka Trump's testimony help or hurt her dad?" asked anchor Wolf Blitzer.
"Her testimony hurt her father," said Eisen. "She threw him under the bus. She did not defend these financial statements. She said she didn't prepare them. She didn't review them and approve them. So if he was looking to her for help, he didn't get it. Or a lot of 'I don't knows' and 'I don't remembers' to protect herself."
"Then finally, Wolf, there was one Perry Mason moment," Eisen continued. "Because this proceeding has been about dishonesty and New York confronted Ivanka with a personal guarantee. Her father was supposed to make a personal guarantee. They confronted her with evidence that the father turned around and demanded that his kids guarantee him for the guarantee. So it was neither personal nor guarantee."
"It was like when he said intent doesn't mean we will do it," he said. Her testimony, Eisen reiterated, "was a Perry Mason moment."
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