She sponsored her parents’ immigration to the United States, and they became citizens at a New York City courthouse in 2018, while Trump was president. Their lawyer said at the time that they applied for citizenship on their own and didn’t get any special treatment. Donald Trump spent Tuesday and Wednesday attending a defamation trial in New York to determine how much he owes former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll for publicly disparaging her after she accused him of rape. Trump’s lawyers had asked the judge to delay the trial for a day to allow him to attend the funeral, but that request was denied. Trump chose to skip Thursday’s court session rather than miss the funeral or move it to Friday when the trial isn’t scheduled to be in session.
