girlfreddy @ girlfreddy @sh.itjust.works

Posts

207

Comments

426

Joined

2 yr. ago

Lou Solomon of the attorney general's office is now showing a 2011 document with proposed terms of a loan from Deutsche Bank for the Doral golf course project in Florida.

The Trumps were seeking a personal wealth management loan, which comes with more favourable rates than commercial real estate loans.

The document states that Donald Trump is the guarantor for the proposed loan, and and that he had to maintain a minimum net worth.

Prosecutors then show an email from Ivanka Trump to then-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg and others about the loan rates.

She wrote: "It doesn't get better than this".

Ivanka tells the court that she did not specifically recall writing or sending that email.

Under questioning, she also said she didn't recall the proposal, or whether she thought it was good.

Ivanka Trump is speaking in hushed tones.

She seems to be choosing her words quite carefully - answering, for the most part, slowly and thoughtfully. She has punctuated some of her answers with a smile.

She is sitting upright with hands in her lap - looking attentively at whoever is speaking or at presented documents.

It's a marked difference from her father's testimony on Monday, when the former president was combative with the judge and prosecution team

Prosecutors just showed Ivanka Trump a 2011 email she wrote to a person named Andy Beal of Beal Bank, with the subject line “Doral" - the golf club that Donald Trump built near Miami.

Ivanka acknowledged a few minutes ago she was very involved in the project.

She writes in the email that "my father" will send you "his most recent financial statement" by mail.

It's likely prosecutors are trying to show she had knowledge of the statements of financial condition. These are documents they allege were fraudulently inflated to secure more favourable loans.

But Ivanka said the conversations were "brief" and did not proceed too far. She couldn't remember if Beal had requested her father's financial documents.

As they did with her brothers, the attorney general's office is showing Ivanka a series of emails meant to bolster their case. They ask if she recognises them.

Her responses so far have been variations on "I don't recall" this email, or that she only recognises them because prosecutors showed them to her a year ago.

It's a variation on Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump's defence that they could not recall being involved with the matters under scrutiny by the AG's office.

The prosecution starts with some easy questions, asking Ivanka Trump to recap her work history in regards to the Trump Organization.

She says that she briefly worked for a prominent New York City developer before joining "our family business".

She says she "cut my teeth on various elements of the business”.

She rose through the company as she "proved myself... and was given more responsibilities”.

Ivanka eventually became an executive vice president like her brothers Eric and Don Jr, but left the Trump Organization role in 2017 when she joined her father in the White House.

The state has just called Ivanka Trump to the witness stand - who is not yet present in the courtroom.

Judge Engoron jokes: "Who is she?"

A few minutes later Ivanka shows up in court and is now being sworn in.

Why the Attorney General wants to question Ivanka

Ivanka Trump was intimately involved in running her father’s business.

In particular, prosecutors say she took the lead on negotiating and securing financing with Deutsche Bank for properties including Trump Doral Golf Resort in Miami, Trump Chicago and the Old Post Office in Washington DC.

The interest rates on the loans were low because they required a personal guarantee from Trump and evidence of his liquidity and net worth.

Hence, prosecutors argue, Trump’s annual statement of financial condition were central to those loans and saved him more than $100m (£81.4m).

Donald Trump’s testimony was that the banks didn’t care about his statements, which he said included a “worthless clause” disclaimer.

Former NY federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg says that Ivanka’s testimony could contradict that assertion.

She expects Ivanka will be asked many questions about her conservations with the banks and her family that led to securing those low rates.

Wut?

Imo the Liberals will fall if Trudeau stays as leader, and it seems many feel the same way.

It's not Jewish people in general. It's Bibi and his Zionist followers, whether they be part of the military or settlers killing Palestinians for their land.

According to WJBF, the sheriff’s office plans to appeal.

Is their appeal gonna be that they just didn't notice it ... because it was the size of a gd softball???

Jayzuz.

I dated someone who liked licking boots. I have no problem with that as a fetish.

Licking Zionist boots is another matter entirely.

I didn't say they don't have power. I said they're too stupid to have power.

It always happens.

Why are you going on about Hamas here?

Jayzuz. Get off your soapbox already.

Amazon Canada is overpricing a shit ton of their items compared to other stores as well.

Neo-nazis and far right wingnuts have 2 brain cells, and if any one of those scumbags could see beyond their noses they'd know they're too stupid to have any power.

Proof comes from watching the GOP flush America down the toilet.

What is spoken of in darkness soon comes into the light.

Here's hoping #DrugFraud 's reign of greed and stupidity falls sooner rather than later.

Fuck Suncor and their rich-assed, oil-addicted leadership.

And fuck the feds and provincial gov'ts for even allowing this stupidity in 2002.

Every comment here so far proves that the "southern metaphor" is alive and well ... where people from urban areas think they know best what should happen in remote regions.

Maybe you all should spend a year living in Alaska to learn what it's like to have southerners tell you how you should live.