Trump Dragged Closer to Testifying in Protesters' Suit Accusing His Guards of Assault

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Daily Beast

Former President Donald Trump is one step closer to testifying in a New York lawsuit filed by a group of protesters who claim his bodyguards assaulted them in 2015.

As The Daily Beast previously reported, the activists had gathered outside Trump Tower to protest the Republican candidate’s derogatory comments on Mexican immigrants. On that September day, soon after the demonstrators assembled on Fifth Avenue outside the skyscraper, several members of Trump’s security team allegedly “violently attacked” them and destroyed their protest banners before a crowd that included reporters.

While president, Trump had tried to quash a subpoena that would force him to testify at the civil trial in the Bronx and sit for a videotaped deposition beforehand. In 2019, his lawyers appealed a judge’s order denying his request.

On Tuesday, the state’s Appellate Division dismissed Trump’s appeal as moot.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-dragged-closer-testifying-protesters-181542290.html

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[TomSlick]

1. Former Guy has no basis to refuse to testify.

It is a legal maxim dating at least as far back as a 1742 parliamentary debate that "the public has a right to every man's evidence." See, Trump v. Vance, 591 U.S. ___, 140 S.Ct. 2412 (2020).

[abqtommy]

2. Some of us call sPUTIN "Pooty-Poot". Now we can call former fascist insurrectionist guy

"Mooty-Moot, The Horse's Patooty-Poot".

[maxsolomon]

3. SIX years later.

The wheels of Justice sure turn slow.

What stalling tactics remain?