Trump filed the suit over a question George Stephanopoulos asked a lawmaker about the decision in the civil suit brought by E. Jean Carroll.

Summary

Donald Trump has been ordered to sit for a deposition the week of Dec. 16 in his defamation lawsuit against ABC News and George Stephanopoulos.

The lawsuit stems from Stephanopoulos’ March statement that Trump had been “found liable for rape,” which Trump claims is defamatory.

While a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll but not for rape, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan later stated Trump did “‘rape’ Ms. Carroll as that term commonly is used.”

Both Trump and Stephanopoulos will be deposed, with sessions limited to four hours.

  • frunch@lemmy.world
    74·
    6 months ago

    Prediction: he doesn’t show up and nothing happens in response.

    I’ll gladly be proven wrong though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • thekidxp@sh.itjust.works
      61·
      6 months ago

      Pretty sure legally he can not show up and just say it’s because he has president things to do and he would have immunity

      • Stovetop@lemmy.world
        7·
        6 months ago

        I mean he’s not president yet, but I doubt that would stop him anyways. Hell, he’ll give himself retroactive presidential immunity for the last four years by continuing to insist he rightfully won the 2020 election, too. And then have anyone citing the 22nd amendment sent to the gulags as an unimpeachable “official act”.

      • frunch@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 months ago

        It really is just like children playing make-believe, making up rules as they go along 🤸‍♂️

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    6 months ago

    Hey, there’s a key difference with this case vs. all the other cases. It’s a civil lawsuit that Trump instigated. So he is the plaintiff here, he is on the offense in the lawsuit. Shouldn’t he want to give his side of the story? And if he delays this one, wouldn’t the judge be well within their rights to say “If you can’t tell us what he did that warrants a penalty, shouldn’t we just drop all this”?

    And actually, I think this is the outcome Trump wants. He doesn’t want to actually win this. He wants the judge to throw it out for entirely sane reasons, because it’s one more thing to complain about and he knows his followers won’t look into the key differences between this and other cases.

    If your only platform is grievance, you need new grievances to keep things fresh, even if you manufacture them yourself.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
    142·
    6 months ago

    nothing will happen, doesn’t matter.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_in_New_York#Delayed_sentencing_hearing

    On September 6, Merchan postponed the sentencing hearing to November 26.[550][551] At the presidential immunity hearing on November 19, the Manhattan DA’s office said it would consent to postpone sentencing until Trump leaves office.[552] Three days later, Merchan canceled the sentencing date without setting a new one.[553]

    This is the one where he got found guilty on 34 felonies. Juan Merchan is a coward.