Former President Donald Trump will see his daughter Ivanka take the stand to testify in the New York civil fraud trial next week, after his two adult sons. Ms. Trump failed to get exempted from being subpoenaed.
Trump biographer Tim O'Brien explained just how devastating this will be for the former president on Monday's edition of MSNBC's "The ReidOut."
"She really is a billionaire, thanks to the Saudis giving her husband a big check," said anchor Joy Reid. "Tim, the boys can't make their father love them no matter what they say in the testimony. That's just a thing. How much do you think that Ivanka, who — Donald Trump has talked about her like he's kind of married to her, which is kind of creepy and gross. How much do you think her testimony destabilizes him?"
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O'Brien explained how much Trump "prizes Ivanka" and sees her as the "Aryan trope he can parade around," as if she is some representation of perfection from "his own gene pool."
"He's been, over the years, embarrassed by his boys, to a certain extent, both of the boys are fenceposts, and he hasn't really ever had the same pride in them that he's taken in Ivanka," explained the biographer. "And I think she, over the years, has made sure to stay in his good graces, while not going completely off the reservation in any way. But she's never been as robustly in his corner and as completely MAGA as the boys are. And what you have here now, I think, it's interesting that her testimony now has been delayed to come after his, because she's going to have to listen to what the boys say and find out what the boys say, and then what her father says, and then there's going to be documents."
Ultimately, he continued, "I think the prosecutors are going to paint her into a corner factually."
"It won't really matter what her allegiances are or how she wants to play her father's graces," explained O'Brien. "She's going to have to figure out whether or not she wants to perjure herself in the courtroom and whether or not the fact pattern is completely damning in her own role that Donald Trump and his sons and she have all played, which is to routinely and artificially inflate the value of Trump's holdings or to deflate them in order to cheat the tax man or goad banks into lending him money, depending on what their preferences are. Those are essentially the two things that are in play in this court case. And Ivanka becomes a material witness, which I don't think she wants to be."
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