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Meanwhile, in the NY Civil Case - Trump's lawyers decided to just start making attacks against the judge's law clerk (the one Trump got a gag order over that he violated) to bail out Eric who was on the stand and getting cornered by the AG.

Here's a thread reader version of a tweet thread regarding much of it:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1720196817118216313.html

To summarize it, the AG was making a strong argument that Eric's "I can't recall" answers regarding his knowledge of the statement of financial condition (pretty much the documents central to the case) were not credible. They got him particularly cornered regarding a 2021 conference call involving Eric and another person on the call who has testified. Eric didn't contest the testimony but claimed to not recall anything about the call regardless of what the AG showed.

But then the AG noted that this call was only 2 years ago, after the AG investigation began, and two years after Eric gave his first deposition related to this case. In that 2020 deposition Eric pleaded the Fifth hundreds of time and the AG seemed to be about to make the case that obviously Eric realized he was at enough risk to invoke the Fifth then so it wasn't that credible that he simply couldn't remember a later conference call regarding the documents in question.

However, one of Trump's lawyers basically intentionally derailed the court by abruptly deciding to attack the judge's law clerk (again.) Obviously this pissed off the judge, who said if this was going to keep happening he'd expand the gag order regarding his staff beyond Trump and to the lawyers as well. Causing Kise (Trump's lawyer) to start invoking a First Amendment right to attack the law clerk and make insinuations about the notes being passed between the judge and the clerk (prompting the judge to state in exasperation that Trump's legal team doesn't have a right to his notes) and raising the possibility of filing a motion for a mistrial if the law clerk was found to have made certain campaign contributions. That basically became how Thursday ended in court.

It spilled over into today's day in court - with the NYAG pointing out that the defense was clearly doing this to disrupt the presentation of evidence.

Meanwhile, Ivanka appealed the judge's order that she must testify if called - and today she lost her appeal. As for Trump himself - he will be testifying on Monday per the judge today.