Former President Donald Trump will struggle to "distance himself" from the actions of his own children, and will have to be creative in how he throws their testimony under the bus at his civil fraud trial in New York, said former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade on MSNBC Friday.
This comes as a state judge ordered that Ivanka Trump, who was previously dismissed from the lawsuit due to her time with the Trump Organization being outside the statute of limitations, must nonetheless testify at her father and brothers' trial.
"She's living far away from Mar-a-Lago, way far away in Miami," said anchor Nicolle Wallace.
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"Yeah, I mean it's really difficult, I think, in this case, for him to distance himself from his children, but I imagine it'll be sort of the way I've seen this happen in courtrooms where, you know, the bank robber defendant, his lawyer calls his mother to testify and talk about what a good boy he his, or their pastor."
The response to that on cross-examination the prosecutors could take, McQuade continued, "is not to beat up the mother or pastor, but instead to suggest they don't know some of these things, right?"
In other words, said McQuade, "'Ivanka Trump, you're a White House senior advisor so you were busy with your own job, so you couldn't possibly know all the things going on here.' I imagine the cross-examination will be something like that, to put some distance between them. I think it's going to be much more difficult with Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., who, of course, had major roles with these organizations."
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