to be in a deposition. he has damaging information. he is obligated to share it truthfully. if he fails to, he could be in trouble for perjury. he has had difficulty to questions in a straightforward matter. his method of speaking has been described by former fbi director james comay as word salad. in a deposition, you can t get away with that. lawyers have all day. there is no worry about whether the viewers will get bored watching. they will ask all day, pin him down and demand he answer the question. it is a peerless situation for him to be in to answer these questions under oath. plaintiffs have the burden of showing their privacy rights were violated. it could result in money damages by the government. they would not be against donald trump personally. it would be against the united states government. that is their goal to be vindicated for this violation of privacy rights. it holds deterring this
the access hollywood tape more than he did in 2016 when he ran from it. there s a lot that came out in what we saw from the civil rape case today. and again, there can be strong deterrent effects that come out of civil trials, not just criminal trials, and i think we have to appreciate that. yes, it s money damages as opposed to incarceration or jail time, but it can also have a really profound effect. we ve learned a lot about what women may do in situation where is they re sexual assaulted. that has an important education function, and we re also learning a lot about donald trump. we re learning a lot about whether donald trump can pick his wife out of alineup or pick someone who s accuse him of rape out of a lineup. apparently there s confusion. we ve learned maybe he s not great at telling the truth about all aspect of his life. he doesn t seem to remember that his affair with marla maples was public news in new york city and was all over the press. he thinks it was a relativel
presidents. i would love to see that phone of yours. the e. jean carroll trial playing itself out in southern manhattan. how concerned is donald trump about that case? everyone i have talk to says trump is very bothered by this case because it is a rape allegation. it s not a criminal case. it s not a charge. but it is a very, very serious allegation and he knows it and it bothers him. it bothers him a lot. i think that he knows that he got himself in some trouble by attacking her on his social media website that was just unhelpful to his case. now, does that mean he will talk about it? not necessarily. but behind the scenes, he is making clear how he feels and it s not positive. the response to the alvin bragg indictment i argue and i think the data is clear was a boost to him at least among republicans. i can t process if this goes a different way, if there is a plaintiff s verdict because it s a case for money damages, right, this is not a criminal
but behind the scenes, he is making it very clear how he feels. the response to the alvin bragg indictment, i argue i think the data is pretty darn clear was a boost to him, at least among republicans. i can t process if this goes a different way, if there is a plaintiffs verdict, because there is a case for money damages. this is not a criminal proceeding. i don t know whether tha t makes a bump in the road for him or not. in the long term, i actually don t think the alvin bragg indictment is especially helpful to him. it s certainly helpful so far in a republican primary. will that be the case in a general election? will there be additional indictments? i think we don t know, the same
say were he on the stand that s the challenge people don t realize, depositions can make or break a case, if you say something out of context, that s locked in granite and is going to come back to bite you. this is a federal case but a civil case it s defamation and battery. if donald trump loses, hooe s n going to prison, but what could he be facing really looking at money damages only, even though it has been correctly called a civil rape case because of new york s law that reopened the statute of limitations, the defamation and rape case are the same thing what the plaintiff has prove is trump was lying about the plaintiff when he said he did not rape her, and it s the same burden of proof, really, that she was, in fact, sexually assaulted. that s what she has to prove here, not beyond a reasonable doubt, jest a preponderance of the evidence, 51%. and that statute was opened up after the news of harvey