Defamation Case: Judge Denies Trump's Request to Delay Deposition

[wing2000]

Meanwhile, the defamation case against Trump moves along.

New York federal judge Lewis A. Kaplan denied former president Donald Trump’s attempt to delay his deposition, set for October 19, in the defamation case brought against him by writer E. Jean Carroll.

Carroll has sued Trump for defaming her by claiming she lied when she said Trump raped her in the mid-1990s. Trump has appealed to substitute the United States for himself as the defendant in the case, since he was president when he said he had not committed the assault. A previous attempt on the part of Trump’s attorney general Bill Barr to substitute the U.S. for Trump failed, so, the judge pointed out, “this is a second bite at that apple.” Still, Trump wanted to pause the case while that appeal is pending.

“As this Court previously has observed,” Judge Kaplan wrote, “Mr. Trump has litigated this case since it began in 2019 with the effect and probably the purpose of delaying it.” He denied the attempt to stop Trump’s deposition, saying Trump “should not be permitted to run the clock out.”

October 12, 2022

 

[Blade]

Lol.. not at you but at all of this hmm dog and pony show (a colloquial term which has come to mean a highly promoted, often over-staged performance, presentation, or event designed to sway or convince opinion for political) Nothing what so ever is going to happen to Trump. I know it says "Trump" yet when it comes to lawyers.. they try anything they can to bend that law as far as it can go..

 

[cow451]

Trump sitting for deposition as we speak (Oct. 19, 2022)
Trump may have blown up his own defence in E Jean Carroll case

 

[Hans Blaster]

Lol.. not at you but at all of this hmm dog and pony show (a colloquial term which has come to mean a highly promoted, often over-staged performance, presentation, or event designed to sway or convince opinion for political) Nothing what so ever is going to happen to Trump. I know it says "Trump" yet when it comes to lawyers.. they try anything they can to bend that law as far as it can go..

Did you even read the earlier post? I'm not sure how this is a "dog and pony show" and the only lawyer I see bending this was Bill Barr. (Unless you want to count Trump's attempt to delay the current deposition.)

Short version:

Minor celebrity claims Trump raped her about 25 years earlier in a department store near his tower.

Trump calls her a liar. She sues for defamation.

AG Barr has the case defended by DOJ as if legally defending the president requires defending his offensive statements. Court eventually removes US government from case and restores Trump as defendant.

Judge orders deposition to proceed last week. Trump repeats the defamatory remarks.

Is he telling the truth? Is she? I don't know. That's what the suit and deposition are for.

 

[cow451]

The Dress ......

Carroll tweeted in late January 2020 that it had been tested and her team had the results. She added that her attorney, Roberta Kaplan of the New York City firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, had served notice to Trump's attorney to submit a sample of his DNA.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Trump sitting for deposition as we speak (Oct. 19, 2022)
Trump may have blown up his own defence in E Jean Carroll case

If you're into pages of thick black lines, you can read Trump's deposition, starting on p.14.

 

[essentialsaltes]

I guess Trump's testimony has now been unsealed as well. You can see how happy he was about the deposition.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

It needs to be settled. If Trump is innocent. He would stop delaying legal stuff. Not that much will happen. But it's speaks volumes that he tries to delay things.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Hoo boy.

Trump thought photo of accuser was of ex-wife during deposition​

NEW YORK — Donald Trump mistook his sexual assault accuser E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples when shown a photograph from the 1990s in a deposition at Mar-a-Lago last year, potentially undermining one of the common defenses he has used to deny an attack.

Trump, who is being sued by Carroll, an author and advice columnist, for defamation and sexual assault stemming from the same alleged encounter, has repeatedly said Carroll is not his “type,” suggesting an assault could not have occurred because he would not have pursued her romantically.

“That’s Marla, yeah. That’s my wife,” Trump said under examination from Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan, in a new selection of excerpts from the deposition that was unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

 

[Hans Blaster]

Hoo boy.

Trump thought photo of accuser was of ex-wife during deposition​

NEW YORK — Donald Trump mistook his sexual assault accuser E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples when shown a photograph from the 1990s in a deposition at Mar-a-Lago last year, potentially undermining one of the common defenses he has used to deny an attack.

Trump, who is being sued by Carroll, an author and advice columnist, for defamation and sexual assault stemming from the same alleged encounter, has repeatedly said Carroll is not his “type,” suggesting an assault could not have occurred because he would not have pursued her romantically.

“That’s Marla, yeah. That’s my wife,” Trump said under examination from Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan, in a new selection of excerpts from the deposition that was unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

He's either blown the "not my type" argument badly or is starting a "senile old man" defense. (Or both, it could be both.)

 

[Desk trauma]

He's either blown the "not my type" argument badly or is starting a "senile old man" defense. (Or both, it could be both.)

There is a much more mundane option, his eye sight is awful and he's too vain to wear glasses.

 

[essentialsaltes]

There is a much more mundane option, his eye sight is awful and he's too vain to wear glasses.

 

[Desk trauma]

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Ugh. I had forgotten that. Must you?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Ugh. I had forgotten that. Must you?

At least I didn't use the cue card with notes on how to simulate empathy for the survivors of the Florida school shooting.

 

[Desk trauma]

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I suppose.

 

[Brihaha]

It needs to be settled. If Trump is innocent. He would stop delaying legal stuff. Not that much will happen. But it's speaks volumes that he tries to delay things.

Trump reveals his hypocrisy frequently. He absolutely delays all his legal issues since learning the D's from Roy Cohn long ago. Deny, deflect, delay, distract etc. Here's a link to what Trump said today about the Supreme Court leak before Roe was overturned. I find it particularly funny how Trump has the audacity to whine about the investigators wasting time when that is his own go-to tactic when faced with legal problems. Trump said "Arrest the reporter, publisher, editor- you'll get your answer fast." Then he added "Stop playing games and wasting time!" I reckon Trump deems himself the only person worthy of wasting time in our justice system. He's simply a sad human being.

Trump calls for Politico journalists to be jailed after Supreme Court investigators couldn't determine who leaked the draft abortion ruling

"Arrest the reporter, publisher, editor - you'll get your answer fast," Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[essentialsaltes]

The Dress ......
Roberta Kaplan of the New York City firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, had served notice to Trump's attorney to submit a sample of his DNA.

Trump team said no.
Now Trump team says maybe.
Key word in OP title is Delay.
Judge says, no, you had your chance.

Trump's new attorney, Joe Tacopina, revived the issue in a letter to Kaplan last week, offering to turn over a sample of Trump's DNA to Carroll's lawyers if they first turned over more information from a report on the DNA that was found on the dress.

Kaplan rejected that proposal in his ruling Wednesday, noting that it came well after both sides had submitted all their evidence in the case, which is scheduled to go to trial in April.

"There is no justification for such a deal," Kaplan wrote, noting that Carroll had turned over the DNA report more than three years ago. If Trump's attorneys wanted information from the appendix that was not included in the report, they should have asked long before now.

 

[essentialsaltes]

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's misogynistic remarks about women in an “Access Hollywood” tape and the testimony of two women who say Trump suddenly attacked them sexually can be heard at a civil trial resulting from a columnist’s claims that he raped her in the 1990s, a federal judge ruled Friday.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Some weeks after cloaking a jury in complete anonymity to preside over E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing former President Donald Trump of rape, a federal judge refused to relax that ruling even enough to confidentially share their identities with the attorneys.

Senior U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said he couldn’t issue such an order in “good conscience,” especially in light of Trump’s continuing attacks on the jurist presiding over the former president’s criminal case.

On March 23, 2023, Kaplan said that he needed to protect jurors’ safety and privacy in light of Trump’s attacks on “courts, judges, various law enforcement officials and other public officials, and even individual jurors in other matters.”

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Loose lips sink ships. Better not put that guy in charge of anything sensitive.

 

[Say it aint so]

Judge in Dominion Defamation Case Warns Fox News Lawyers: ‘Newsworthiness’ Argument Won’t Fly at Trial​

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"The Delaware Superior Court judge overseeing Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit warned defendant Fox News on Tuesday that its “newsworthiness” arguments – which had been shaping up to be a major pillar of the network’s case – would be on thin ice as the trial gets underway next week.'​

Well there you go. The Judge ruled; the defense of knowingly airing people you know are lying about Dominion, because it was "newsworthy" has been scuttled.

FOX, just like they had to do with the Lou Dobbs case, will probably be settling in 5..4..3..2..