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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Court rejects Ivanka Trump claim she is too busy to testify during school week

Ivanka Trump has kept a low profile in Florida since her father’s loss in the 2020 election.
Ivanka Trump has kept a low profile in Florida since her father’s loss in the 2020 election. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Ivanka Trump’s argument that she should be spared giving midweek testimony in her father Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York because she is a busy mother of school-aged children in Florida was given short shrift by an appeals court.

The former president’s daughter, a senior adviser during his single term of office, asked the panel to set aside a ruling by a district court judge compelling her to testify next Wednesday, 8 November.

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