Interestingly, Trump tried to use the New York trial to avoid making a deposition for HIS lawsuit AGAINST Cohn, Arguing that the date set for the deposition conflicted with the date of the New York trial, even though it was his legal team that asked for the date for the deposition, they knew they could use the New York trial to avoid Trump making a deposition that may put him in further legal jeopardy, even though he was the one suing Cohn.
US Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres said that Trump “again requested that the Court reschedule his deposition so that he could attend his previously-scheduled New York trial in person. Plaintiff represented that, now that pretrial rulings have been entered in the case that materially altered the landscape, it was imperative that he attend his New York trial in person—at least for each day of the first week of trial when many strategy judgments had to be made.”
But asked by reporters in Los Angeles Friday night whether he was going to the Monday trial, Trump said, “I may, I may, yeah.”
Trump’s team is looking into arrangements to have him in New York next week, according to two sources – however, as of Friday night, a trip was not yet confirmed.
Although as we see above, while his lawyers argue he will be attending every day and therefore be unavailable for the deposition, Trump himself seems less than committed to the prospect of attending every day, thus it appears this is only a delaying action to get the deposition delayed yet again, it has already been rescheduled a number of times, it's almost as if he doesn't want to be deposed in his own lawsuit, and it has been suggested that once he is no longer able to avoid the deposition he may just withdraw the lawsuit entirely.
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