Donald Trump Jr. Says He Wasn’t Involved in Financial Statements

Donald Trump Jr.told a judge he wasn’t involved in preparing financial statements for his father’s real estate company that are at the center of New York state’s civil fraud trial.

“The accountants worked on it,” the eldest son of former president Donald Trump testified Wednesday in a Manhattan courtroom. “That’s what we paid them for.”

Donald Trump Jr., center left, departs from New York State Supreme Court in New York on Nov. 1.

Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg

New York Attorney General Letitia James has accused Trump and his two eldest sons in a lawsuit of inflating asset values across the family’s real estate empire by billions of dollars, reaping $250 million in “illegal profits” from 2011 to 2021. The former ...