Donald Trump’s lawyers on Thursday ripped the former president’s accountant for claiming “I don’t know” or “I don’t remember” dozens of times during his testimony at trial in the New York attorney general’s $250 million civil fraud case.
Donald Bender, a partner at accounting firm Mazars USA, had been under tense cross-examination by Trump’s attorneys since Tuesday afternoon when they called him out over his apparent memory loss during the final hours on the witness stand.
“In the past three days, you testified ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I don’t remember’ over 89 times,” Trump lawyer Jesus Suarez told Bender on Thursday morning in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Bender appeared flustered as Suarez and another Trump lawyer pelted him with questions and claimed he was evading their inquiry.
Clifford Robert, the other Trump attorney, later repeated a question similar to the one posed by Suarez, saying: “Over the last few days, you have said ‘I don’t recall’ or ‘I don’t remember’ over 90 times?”