Mother Jones: During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump was burdened with lawsuits that accused him and his Trump University of defrauding students who had paid thousands of dollars to learn the supposed secrets of Trump’s financial success.
Though the Trump U controversy raised questions about Trump’s fitness for office, he managed to score two legal victories in the case as it proceeded. He won a postponement in the trial until after Election Day, and he managed to seal the video of a six-hour deposition he gave in the case.
Trump’s Fraud Deposition, Why Wasn’t He Jailed? (amazing video) – Mother Jones: During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump was burdened with lawsuits that accused him and his Trump University of defrauding students who had paid thousands of dollars to learn the supposed secrets of… pic.twitter.com/Rl9cv6e1N7
— VeteransToday (@veteranstoday) September 19, 2020
That meant voters would not see news reports of Trump on the stand in a federal civil fraud case or be able to watch this footage of Trump being questioned concerning allegations of fraud. But Mother Jones has now obtained the full video of Trump’s deposition, and though the written transcript of the session was released in June 2016, the video version includes several exchanges that likely would not have played well for Trump had they become public when he was chasing votes.
DEADLINE TRUMP!@realdonaldTrump now has deadlines to provide a DNA sample & to sit for a deposition in my case.
Latest letter from the mighty @kaplanrobbie, @JoshuaMatz8 & Matthew Craig to Trump’s lawyers.https://t.co/QBMSSYqWNN pic.twitter.com/zcBdNPP36E
— E. Jean Carroll (@ejeancarroll) August 10, 2020
Trump sat for this deposition in Trump Tower on December 10, 2015. The video shows him parrying with the lawyer for the plaintiffs, Jason Forge, over various issues, including false statements made by Trump University employees, and Trump’s own memory. Trump at one point griped, “It’s the most ridiculous lawsuit I’ve ever seen.”
When he was asked during the deposition about claiming to have the world’s best memory, Trump replied, “I don’t remember that.” https://t.co/seNwwxwKAL
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 19, 2020
He claimed not to remember having boasted that he possessed one of the best memories in the world and repeatedly said he could not recall matters related to the case. He downplayed false and misleading statements presented by Trump University instructors as merely “hyperbole,” refusing to label them “false.”
Eric Trump seeks to delay deposition by N.Y. Attorney General until after election https://t.co/07SRfKqNJ8
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) September 17, 2020
He even disavowed a passage from one of his own books in which he had assailed educational institutions for committing “fraud.” Had the video deposition been released during the campaign, it may have yielded ammo for anti-Trump ads. At the start of the deposition, Trump’s attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, said he and Trump did not want the transcript “getting into the hands of the media.” Regarding the video, they succeeded.
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Donald Trump Wanted to Keep This Video Deposition Secret. We Got a Copy.
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