SHANNON STAPLETON
Donald Trump Jr. took the stand on Thursday for a second day in his father’s New York civil fraud trial, and prosecutors hammered the twice-impeached ex-president’s son about why he signed off on reams of allegedly inaccurate financial statements for the family real estate business if he truly had nothing to do with them, as he continued to claim.
“I rely on the accounting team to tell me what is accurate, that’s why we have accountants,” Don Jr. testified.
When the prosecution brought up a representation letter the Trump Organization provided to Mazars, the accounting firm which cut ties with the business last year while saying it could no longer stand behind some 10 years worth of financial statements it prepared for the company, Don Jr. acknowledged that he signed it but said he didn’t remember anything more about it specifically.