Thursday marked precisely one month since Donald Trump’s $250 million civil fraud trial started in New York Metropolis. Whereas the previous president was not in courtroom to mark the event, his two eldest sons—and co-defendants—Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump had been. And each took the stand to testify about what they know (and extra usually what they don’t know) about some troubling irregularities present in monetary statements filed by the Trump Group.
Jimmy Kimmel, for one, thought the brothers made for an imposing duo. “I haven’t seen a extra likable set of brothers on trial because the Menendez boys,” mentioned the host of the siblings, whom he dubbed “the Stinklevoss Twins.”
The day marked Eric’s huge debut on the stand, the place his sworn testimony about his data relating to a few of his father’s monetary dealings appeared to immediately contradict earlier statements he made relating to the Trump Group.
“Issues obtained off to a gradual begin after they requested Eric to boost his proper hand,” Kimmel mentioned of Eric (a.okay.a. “Tweedle-even-dumber”). “He couldn’t determine it out for the lifetime of him, and he tried.” Like Don Jr., who completed up his second day of testimony shortly earlier than his brother took the stand, Eric supplied an terrible lot of I-can’t-remembers in response to attorneys’ questions.
“Eric repeatedly mentioned: ‘I don’t concentrate on the monetary facet of issues… I pour concrete.’ He mentioned that a number of occasions. He mentioned, ‘I’m not a cash man, I’m a development man.’ He’s a development man just like the man within the Village Folks’s a development man. He owns a yellow hat.”
Don Jr. actually didn’t escape scrutiny, or mockery, when he claimed to don’t have anything to do with the knowledge contained throughout the statements he signed asserting that the knowledge contained inside them had been true. However Kimmel appeared extra amused that the previous president opted out of coming to courtroom in any respect.
“Actually, Donald Trump not exhibiting as much as watch his children testify in a fraud trial is the Trump household model of not exhibiting up for his or her faculty play,” famous Kimmel.
On Late Night time, Seth Meyers wasn’t about to let the Trump brothers get away with out a good ribbing. Throughout Thursday night time’s “A Nearer Look” section, Meyers laid into each brothers for claiming to have little understanding of their household firm’s monetary inside workings, despite the fact that each often signed statements on the contrary. “You don’t get to assert you didn’t know what was in it, then simply stroll away scot-free,” mentioned Meyers. “That doesn’t work for anybody else. That may be like John Hancock saying: ‘Independence from England? I by no means agreed to that!’”
Eric is scheduled to finish his testimony on Friday, which is when his dad will doubtless testify in his personal protection earlier than Ivanka Trump is sworn in on Monday.