A courtroom sketch of Ivanka Trump on the witness stand at her father’s civil fraud trial in New York has been mocked online — with some screaming critics accusing the artist of being “jealous” of the former first daughter and committing a creative “crime.”
Ivanka, 41, was portrayed at Wednesday’s hearing by courtroom artist Jane Rosenberg, whose sketch of Donald Trump mocking him at his Manhattan trial in April for falsifying business records related to alleged “hush money” payments to former porn star Stormy Daniels went viral and emblazoned front of the New Yorker.
But many online observers claimed the Reuters artist’s depiction of the designer-clad Trump daughter — showing her long blonde hair framing her face, which had a pensive expression as she was questioned by state prosecutors — was unflattering.
“Damn, what Ivanka Trump did to that courtroom sketch artist makes this feel like a vendetta,” said one person on X.
“This sketch artist should be charged with a crime!,” wrote another.
Some have even stated that Rosenberg sketched out of revenge.
Ivanka Trump was shown several exhibits on the witness stand by a prosecutor as defense attorney Christopher Kise objected during the Trump Organization’s civil fraud trial before Judge Arthur Engoron on Wednesday.REUTERS
“Someone else who is very jealous of Ivanka Trump and her stunning beauty must have drawn this sketch of the court,” wrote one on X.
Others came to Rosenberg’s defense, with one suggesting it was one of the “better pictures” they had seen from the courtroom, where cameras were banned.
Ivanka – a mother of three and a businesswoman who was a model in her youth – reluctantly took the stand in Manhattan Supreme Court in a $250 million lawsuit brought against her father and brother Donald Jr. and Eric by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
James rested his case Wednesday, but not before Ivanka, the state’s final witness, was pressed about her role in securing loans for the Trump Organization and about an apartment she leased from her father.
Some accused the sketch artist, Jane Rosenburg, of drawing an unflattering picture of the 41-year-old.REUTERS
The former president, 77, is accused of inflating the value of his decade-long assets on financial documents by $2.2 billion in one year to win better loan and insurance terms.
Rosenberg’s sketches continue to be fodder on late-night TV, with NBC’s “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon joking that he’s excited to “finish [his] Trump courtroom sketch trading card set.”
The prank also featured fake Topps-style trading cards of former president and current 2024 GOP presidential candidate Eric and Don Jr. — who had asked Rosenberg to “make me look sexy” when he took the stand in the James case last week, he said.
Rosenberg — who issued an apology in 2015 for not making former NFL star Tom Brady look “as handsome as he really is” during his “Deflategate” testimony — told The Post on Thursday that he thought Ivanka was “very beautiful.”
“It’s very difficult to capture the subtlety of his look in such a short amount of time,” says Rosenberg. “She’s smooth and perfect! Tell my model to shut up and give me more time! Apologies to Ivanka!”
Rosenberg added that it was not an easy target for keyboard critics, writing in an email, “Insulting this courtroom artist is really hard to take.”
After eight days and dozens of witnesses for the prosecution, the defense will have the opportunity to call witnesses to court, starting Monday.
Trump, who is far and away the highest-polling candidate for the GOP nomination and leads presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Biden in five key states, faces having to pay millions and lose his New York real estate empire.
Although he did not risk prison time in the civil case, he faced hundreds of years in prison in four criminal cases in Washington, New York, Florida and Georgia in which he was charged with 91 total criminal charges.
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