What a life the two elder Trump sons must lead. We know from news stories in just the past couple of days that they went to hold up executives at Truth Social and see if they could get a “handout” of equity in the company. They did nothing to earn said equity and they would have deprived other people who had in fact developed the company of the fruit of their labors, but that didn’t deter les frères Trump.
Then today we learn that they’ve been dodging process servers for weeks — and this is just with respect to one case. Who knows what the whole story is?
Letitia James has been attempting service of process on Eric and Junior as officers of the Trump Organization. Well, never mind them, she got the job done another way.
Representatives for Trump and his son Eric, an executive vice president at his father’s company, had evaded service of the lawsuit ever since it was filed three weeks ago, on September 21.
Habba and a lawyer for Eric Trump, Clifford Robert, never replied to emails sent by the attorney general that same day requesting confirmation that they were the appropriate persons to accept service, her office complained in a court filing last week.
Lawyers for all of the suit’s other defendants, including Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., had meanwhile quickly accepted service.
The silent treatment from Donald and Eric Trump came despite Habba and Robert having submitted notices to the court in late September — called “notices of appearance” — declaring themselves to be attorneys of record for the case.
The apparent runaround led James’ office to accuse Trump’s side of “gamesmanship.” Last week, she sought a court order that allowed her to simply email the papers to Habba and Robert and be done with it.
The Manhattan judge handling the case quickly agreed, ruling Thursday that emailing the papers to the two lawyers would suffice as service to both Trumps. James fired off those emails the same day, their Monday filing said.
And oral argument is set for Halloween day, where both sides will argue over the attorney general’s claim that the Trump Organization is so rife with ongoing fraud that it’s in immediate need of an independent financial monitor to be appointed and overseen by the judge — lest it keep on grifting away, even while in trial, we presume.
What a family. The family that preys together. And they were the First Family of our nation for four, interminable years. Unbelievable. I wonder if we’ll ever live down the disgrace.
Do they not understand that that’s one reason why they *have* lawyers?