Ivanka Trump asked a New York appeals court to pause the $250 million fraud trial of her family and its business empire as she appeals a judge’s order requiring her to testify in the case next week.

The request to stay the entire trial came at the tail end of a Thursday court filing arguing that Ivanka Trump will face “undue hardship” if forced to testify — in part because she is scheduled to appear “in the middle of a school week.”

New York Attorney General Letitia James urged the appeals court to reject that request, calling it a “drastic” and baseless move that “would upend an ongoing trial.”

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I couldn’t possibly answer for my crimes during a school night. I mean who would make sure our nanny takes the children to school? My butler? Please; how gauche.

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180 points

Oh girl please. You managed to travel around the world for 4 years as a “White House advisor” without any problems. You’ll deal with it.

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Frankly my dear I give zero fucks if she can deal with it or not!

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Working class people have to do this all the time and they can’t just pay someone to take care of their kids for a bit and need to work to pay rent. If she gets special treatment for this, I’m going to be pissed.

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I think you have misunderstood the meanings of “undue” and “hardship”

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49 points

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

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5 points

Anybody want a peanut?

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4 points

Well the circus is in town…

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4 points

I’m sure he means you no HARM

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Lol what. As a parent, school times are when you can actually get shit done. Half term/school holidays are when you have the least free time.

This is of course assuming one doesn’t have staff, as she clearly will. What unmitigated bollocks.

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Ivanka is flailing. She can lie for her father and face jail; plead the Fifth and try to maintain her innocence independently: or tell the truth and send trump to jail.

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42 points

The penalty for this trial is monetary/forfeiture of ownership. There’s no jail possible here.

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If the testimony reveals criminal actions, then criminal charges can be filed. That was the big ‘whoooah’ from the testimonies of the other trump children; their testimonies apparently contained elements of criminal offenses beyond the simple civil matters of this trial.

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That’s a bingo. Can’t fix stupid.

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Telling the truth would also send her to jail unless she can reach a plea bargain, and I think that particular ship has sailed.

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She’s not party to this case, and it’s a civil trial so there isn’t jail time. Unless she’s caught perjuring herself like her brothers. And even that won’t likely affect any of them.

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Lawyerly types of folks have been pointing out that the Trumpses have been making statements on the stand that open them up to criminal charges, so I’m not going to wager on her making a good case of it.

I think she is exactly as smart as the rest of her family, but manages to keep her mouth shut slightly more often.

Honestly, I would like the Saudi money and the West Bank money investigated for her and Jared.

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