The seesions will be next wewek when one Donald J. Trump is JUST John Q. Citizen…….
The is on a Federal Civil suit Trump has filed against ABC and ABC News host George Stephanopoulos ….
This is one of the coming Civil cases that Trump will be involved in now and next year….
Trump probably could drop the case and get out of appearing before the lawyers….
Update…
Trump Wins….
ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll, the AP reports.
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A federal judge has ordered President-elect Donald Trump and ABC News host George Stephanopoulos to sit for four-hour depositions next week in a libel lawsuit Trump brought against the network earlier this year.
Miami-based U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisette Reid issued the orderFriday, signaling that Trump’s status as president-elect is not a reason to put off sworn questioning of him in connection with the suit he filed.
“The parties are reminded that the Court ‘has already granted a lengthy discovery period . . . and, with Election Day now behind us, there is no reason for any further delay,’” Reid wrote, quoting an earlier order in the case.
Reid said Trump’s deposition must take place “in person” in the Southern District of Florida, which includes Trump’s Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago.
Trump sued ABC after Stephanopoulos said on air that Trump raped writer E. Jean Carroll, who won a civil verdict against Trump for sexual abuse last year. The jury did not back Carroll’s rape claim against Trump, but in a subsequent opinion, the judge presiding over the case emphasized the distinction between the legal definition of rape and its more colloquial understanding…..
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