'I will knock them dead': Trump lawyer overheard making him promise as she heads to court
Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba was overheard on the phone with her client, Donald Trump, on Wednesday as she was walking through the courthouse.
According to MSNBC's Lisa Rubin, Habba said: “'Hi, sir, I am in the elevator in the courtroom.' Pause. 'I will knock them dead.'”
Trump's adult sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are scheduled to testify on Wednesday through Friday this week, with his daughter Ivanka expected to take the stand after her father next week. Thus far, Eric has claimed that he had no real role in the appraisals because he was "pouring concrete" — meaning he manages properties rather than gets involved in the business side.
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Don. Jr. was a trending political news topic on the social media site "X," but Rubin thinks that Eric is "the one to watch."
"As someone who has studied the case filings and watched much of the trial in person, I know that Eric, who insisted at his deposition that his participation in developing certain properties was at a 'very macro' level and that he was 'focused on pouring concrete, not accounting,' was not just more enmeshed with the operation of the Trump Organization than most understand; he was also allegedly heavily involved in the valuation of several of the assets at issue," she wrote.
In the case of the Trump Organization's New York estate Seven Springs, for example, Eric Trump was actually living on site as the project moved forward.