Earlier mentioned, Tim O’Brien on Ivanka Trump.
TIM O’BRIEN: I can guarantee you Ivanka Trump has a nanny. And I ensure you that unquestionably very little would retain her absent from a Manhattan fashion present or a start appointment or something else if she required one thing else to glance after their young children. So the concept that this is what they’ve proffered as a browse-in for her not to be in court demonstrates the extent to which they truly disdain the system and how significantly they essentially want to go to any suggests necessary to seem — to stay clear of showing in court. Due to the fact once again, as we’ve spoken about time and time all over again, they’re being he’ll be held accountable in the court of law not the courtroom of general public feeling, and they are employed to currently being ready to spin men and women in the court of public impression. And this is why this course of action is so crucial. Donald Trump has routinely attempted to undermine the rule of legislation in the authorized process. And as a variety of jurists, such as the Supreme Court docket, reminded us, no one’s higher than the rule of legislation, such as former presidents. And specifically such as his youngsters, even if their have little ones require to be appeared right after.
The To start with Shady Ivanka Kushner (née Trump) dropped her enchantment to postpone her testimony thanks to (checks notes) possessing school-aged little ones.
Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump shed an attraction to postpone her testimony in her father’s $250m civil fraud lawsuit.
Her lawyer experienced sought a hold off in her testimony on 8 November, arguing she would experience “undue hardship” as it was scheduled “in the center of a college week”.
An appeals court quickly denied her request late Thursday to hold off her testimony.
Could not she testify when they switch 18, your honor?
Connected: The Atlantic
Donald Trump threw a total-blown temper tantrum at a single of his lawyers on discovering of the March 2024 get started date for his New York Metropolis hush-funds trial—calling attorney Todd Blanche a “little fucker” in a tirade that lasted north of thirty minutes. The anecdote was disclosed as section of a lengthy report by writer Jonathan Karl in The Atlantic Thursday. “That’s in the middle of the primaries!” Trump reportedly yelled at Blanche. “If I eliminate the presidency, you are going to be the purpose!”
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