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Tiffany Trump made her debut in her father’s Manhattan court entourage days after Michael Cohen revealed in dramatic testimony that she had been the victim of an apparent extortion plot.
Trump’s daughter with Marla Maples appeared at the trial for closing arguments in a mini family reunion to show support, along with half brothers Don Jr. and Eric Trump. She was spotted departing Trump Tower in advance or her father’s move to the court Tuesday morning for the first time in nearly a week. Then, she stood behind Trump as he once again railed against the prosecution.
She was seated inside the courtroom on the aisle next to Eric’s wife Lara Trump, who is a co-chair of the Republican National Committee. Her husband Michael Boulos was also there for closing arguments in the Stormy Daniels trial.
Tiffany, a Georgetown Law graduate, is getting the chance to see Trump lawyer Todd Blanche weave together closing arguments that were set to last about two and a half hours. It is a critical aspect of trial law, referencing evidence and testimony jurors may have heard weeks ago to try to steer them toward a verdict of not guilty.
Just days ago, Blanche had asked star witness Michael Cohen during cross-examination about the apparent ‘extortion’ attempt involving Tiffany. It was part of an effort to undercut Cohen’s own testimony that he was speaking to Trump about the Stormy Daniels matter during a critical period, rather than other matters that might have risen to the top of his to-do list.
‘You agree with me, right, that you had a lot going on both in your personal life and with President Trump in those first two weeks of October?’ Blanche asked the witness during a long cross-examination where he poked holes in his story. ‘You recall on October 25th, you recall her communicating with you concerns about somebody trying to blackmail her?’ Blanche asked. ‘Yes sir,’ Cohen responded.
That was the day after Cohen testified that he spoke to Trump to tell him the Stormy Daniels matter was resolved and said Trump authorized the plan to pay her off. Cohen says he reached Trump on the phone by ringing Trump security chief Keith Schiller’s phone.
Blanche later established through text messages that Cohen was also dealing with a prank caller at the time, and accused him of lying about ever discussing the Stormy Daniels pay off during the call. Tiffany has kept a lower profile than her older siblings, whose mother is the late Ivana Trump.
She appeared with him at the 2016 Republican convention, but didn’t join him at the White House like Ivanka did, and was at school during the period when Eric and Don Jr. were helming the Trump Organization along with exec Allen Weisselberg. Her appearance comes after DailyMail.com reported that Tiffany’s husband Michael Boulos and his billionaire Lebanese father are helping court Arab-Americans for Trump.
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