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Trump's lawyers in panic-mode as he's ordered to testify under oath about incident at 2015 protest.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/22/trump-testimony-legal-deposition-1507272A lawsuit brought by protesters who contend they were roughed up by security personnel outside Trump Tower in 2015 has suddenly become an urgent problem for President Donald Trump’s legal team after a New York judge ruled Friday that Trump must submit to a videotaped deposition in the case.
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Trump’s lawyers could ask the judge to delay the trial or file an appeal to try to block the order for the president’s testimony. There’s also the chance of an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court or that Trump might simply ignore the judge’s order and see what sanctions she imposes.
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Trump is named personally as a defendant in the suit, along with the Trump Campaign, the Trump Organization and Keith Schiller, who served Trump for years as a security guard and later as Director of Oval Office Operations at the White House.
Trump’s efforts to avoid testifying in the case have collided with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1997 ruling requiring President Bill Clinton to submit to a deposition in a federal lawsuit brought by a former Arkansas state employee, Paula Jones, who accused Clinton of sexual harassment while he was governor of the state. The unanimous opinion said there is no immunity for a president sued over events taking place before he entered office.
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Trump’s lawyers could ask the judge to delay the trial or file an appeal to try to block the order for the president’s testimony. There’s also the chance of an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court or that Trump might simply ignore the judge’s order and see what sanctions she imposes.
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Trump is named personally as a defendant in the suit, along with the Trump Campaign, the Trump Organization and Keith Schiller, who served Trump for years as a security guard and later as Director of Oval Office Operations at the White House.
Trump’s efforts to avoid testifying in the case have collided with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1997 ruling requiring President Bill Clinton to submit to a deposition in a federal lawsuit brought by a former Arkansas state employee, Paula Jones, who accused Clinton of sexual harassment while he was governor of the state. The unanimous opinion said there is no immunity for a president sued over events taking place before he entered office.
This is so unfair! Do they seriously expect Trump to perform the inhuman task of keeping lies separate from truth?
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