'A losing strategy': Why the Trump kids’ testimony 'was not helpful' to their father’s fraud case

Ahead of former President Donald Trump's scheduled testimony in his New York civil fraud trial Monday, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump testified last last week blaming the committed fraud on their father's accountants.

According to legal analyst Catherine Christian, their argument will not help the 2024 MAGA hopeful's case in any way.

"You've got Donald Jr., and Eric, both trying to distance themselves from these documents that exonerated their father's network," Ayman host Ayman Mohyeldin said to Christian Sunday. "They're doing it in classic Trump fashion — blame everybody but yourself, blame accountants, blame everybody that's involved. Based on what we saw this week, how likely is that defense strategy of pointing the fingers to someone else, likely to succeed?"

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"It's a losing strategy. First of all, accountants prepare financial statements and tax returns based on the information and that their clients give them. If the clients give them false information, the tax returns and financial statements will be false. So to say, 'I don't know, it was my accountants' — it's just not a defense that's going to work. Not with this judge, and not with the appellate court. And the AG's attorneys were very prepared for the answers of Don and Eric, with documents after documents. I'm surprised that they were not prepared that anything they say is going to be a financial statement with their signature on it. There's gonna be an email that's going to have someone talking about a discussion they had with Eric or Don about it. So, their testimony was not helpful in any way, for their case. Not for them, not for their father, and not for the Trump Organization."

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Why the Trump kids defense is a 'losing strategy': analystyoutu.be

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