Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization and son of former President Donald Trump, appears to have gotten twisted-up when questioned on his knowledge of his father’s financial statements that are at the heart of Trump’s New York business fraud case.
Eric took the witness stand for the first time Thursday after his elder brother, Donald Trump Jr., finished up cross-examination that same morning. Trump’s two oldest sons are listed alongside their father as defendants in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ $250 million lawsuit, which accuses the Trump Organization of misvaluing its assets for financial gains. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.
Assistant Attorney General Andrew Amer hammered Eric Trump before the court’s lunch break Thursday on his involvement in the Trump Organization’s statements of financial condition—the documents behind the misvaluing of Trump’s assets that could sink the former president’s businesses.
Eric Trump Stumbles in Court Testimony
Eric Trump sits in court during his civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court on November 2, 2023, in New York City. Eric Trump appears to have contradicted himself during his testimony in the civil fraud case Thursday.
According to reporting by The Messenger correspondent Adam Klasfeld, Eric Trump told Amer that he “never had anything to do with the statements of financial condition.” Prosecutors presented, however, a series of emails as well as several phone conversations that show Eric Trump discussing such documents with employees of the Trump Organization, including former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, a co-defending in the fraud case.
In one document in particular—a data spreadsheet supporting the 2013 statement of financial condition—then-controller of the Trump Organization Jeff McConney writes that the valuation of Seven Springs was based on a telephone call with Eric Trump. Klasfeld reported on X, formerly Twitter, that prosecutors also presented an email from August 2013 that was sent from McConney to Eric Trump regarding “Mr. Trump’s annual financial statement.”
