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Documents Show Ivanka Trump Didn’t Testify Accurately in Inauguration Scandal Case

Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the  Mother Jones Daily  newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. The Trump family has trouble with depositions. In 2007 testimony, Donald Trump was  repeatedly shown  to be a liar. In February, Donald Trump Jr. was deposed in the Trump inauguration scandal lawsuit, and on several key points, under oath, he  provided false testimony . A review of documents filed in that case and other material obtained by  Mother Jones  shows that Ivanka Trump also testified inaccurately during her  deposition  in this lawsuit.  The inauguration probe was launched last year by Karl Racine, the attorney general of Washington, DC. He has alleged that Trump’s inauguration committee misused charitable funds to enrich the Trump family. As Racine  put it , the lawsuit maintains “that the Inaugural Committee, a nonprofit corporation, coordinated with the Trump family to grossly ove...