Welcome to the Beat. I'm Melissa Murray in for Ari Melbur, and it's been a rough week in court for the Trump family.

Don Jr. and Eric Trump both testified in the civil fraud case with the future of their family business at stake.

Today was Eric Trump's second day on the stand, and NBC reporters note that Eric Trump

seemed more nervous today than in yesterday's testimony. They report that he was often

leaning back and forth in his chair and fidgeting and they also described him as

agitated and defiant. The civil prosecutor spent part of today asking Eric Trump about Alan Weisselberg's severance

package.

Weiselberg, you'll recall, served three months at Rikers Island for tax fraud and was removed

from his position as CFO of the Trump organization.

When he left, he was given a $2 million severance package, with some strings

attached, including a provision specifying that Weisselberg could not communicate with,

provide information to, or otherwise cooperate in any way with any other person or entity.

And Weisselberg has been true to his word.

He is never cooperated with Manhattan prosecutors in Donald Trump's Stormy Daniels' hush

money case, one of the four criminal trials that Trump is currently facing.

And Eric Trump says that he was responsible for the Weiselberg Severance deal.

I was the person who did this. I signed it, I negotiated, and asked if his father had any involvement in this.

He said no, he did not.

After testifying, Eric Trump spoke to reporters, blasting the whole trial as a political witch hunt.

She's come after my father ruthlessly.

Every single day a Trump is in this court, guess what?

She shows up. Why? Because it's her press moment.

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