Maggie Haberman Has No Sympathy Minutes After Ivanka Denied Fraud Trial Delay: ‘Lots of Parents’ Have To Show Up For Court
New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman had no sympathy for Ivanka Trump after her attempt to delay testimony was denied, telling CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins “lots of parents” have to show up to court on a school week.
Judge Arthur Engoron — who is presiding over the trial in the fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James — recently ruled that former First Daughter Ivanka Trump must testify in person. But Ivanka tried to get out of testifying by filing a motion for a stay to the New York Court of Appeals Thursday, arguing she would suffer “undue hardship” if she was forced to testify “in the middle of a school week.”
Her motion was denied.
On Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins asked Haberman about the hot-off-the-presses news of the denial, and neither of them seemed to find the hardship claim all that compelling:
COLLINS: Yes. And just before we came on air tonight, we got this news, that at least part of the appeal that Ivanka Trump’s attorneys filed today, trying to pause the whole trial, while they figure out whether or not she has to testify, has been denied. Right now, she’s still set to testify to next week.
She’s been fighting it in part saying that it would be undue hardship, because it’s Wednesday. It’s in the middle of a school week that she’d have to come to New York to do that. What’s your sense of why she is fighting, testifying?
HABERMAN: I think there are a couple of reasons. Among them that I think that just the whole Trump ethos is “Fight, fight, fight. Delay, delay, delay.”
Don’t forget that Ivanka Trump’s testimony, before the House Select Committee, that was investigating January 6th, was played at a public hearing, I think more than one. It infuriated former President Trump. I think this creates the potential for some moments that would be, again, very uncomfortable for Ivanka Trump.
Now, I think lots of parents have children. She has three children. I think lots of parents with three children still are forced to go to court, and don’t end up, just in various cases, describe it as an undue hardship, especially somebody with the means that she has. But I think that it is not surprising to see her trying to delay.
Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.
