Trump always loses in discovery because things are "discovered".
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If he does not show up, just bin the case and mame him pay all costs for the court and BBCs lawyers.
Nah arrest him. That's the law
If he does not show up, just bin the case and mame him
I like where you're coming from, but it's spelled "maim."
Here's the whip. Please apply 39 lashes to my keypads auto"correct".
I was thinking we throw an arcade cabinet at him?
He drops the suit in three, two...
Not sure he can do that without consequence. A quick Googling suggests that once the case has gone to discovery like this one, both sides need to agree to a dismissal and if the BBC thinks they have a strong case (which I think they probably do) they would would demand compensation. They spent a lot of resources fighting this already, after all.
So he'll drop it, BBC will be awarded compensation, and he won't pay it.
And then the BBC sues, wins, and eventually they just start seizing assets.
Trump has lost court cases and has paid out before.
If anyone knows how to stall the legal process, it's little t. "Eventually" means nothing.
E Jean Carol would disagree.
$5.6M. The larger amount is still held up, though it is in escrow. And he's abused his office to grift way more than that, so it's just chump change. Not to mention that it'll be a lot hard for the UK to get him to pay up.
The BBC will just seize one of his golf courses through the courts.
It's going to be absolutely hilarious right up to the point he decides to nuke Scotland as payback.
Well he will probably wait for Tuesday.
He will never sit. He will drag it out as long as possible, or at least until after the midterm.
If I learned anything from Knowledge Fight, its that you can stretch out sitting for a deposition and court case for fucking years.
He will never sit.
He has to or else he's held in contempt. Once he loses the House and Senate in a couple weeks, and is fully Impeached, he'll be spending the rest of his life either in jail or in a courthouse.
He sat there while they read 'guilty' 34 times.
You don't have to be President Pedophile to delay a deposition.
I was in an accident a few years back. The other driver came into my lane and I tried to go around him, but failed. My best guess is that he fell asleep and just drove over the double yellow line. We hit in an offset head on collision, passenger side to passenger side.
The other driver had the state mandated minimum coverage, and the accident caused about $20,000 damage to my car. My insurance sued the other driver.
It took years to get the other driver to show up for the deposition. They'd schedule it, I'd take the day off, then the other driver would cancel at the last minute.
Eventually we all got into the same law office for the deposition. My insurance's lawyer put me in a room to read over the transcript* from my statement after the accident and asked me if I had any questions. Then they stepped out to see if the other driver and his lawyer were ready.
When he came back he said they settled.
They were hoping they'd get me to not show up so they could get the case dismissed. When they finally realized that would never happen, they gave up.
I might have not been so determined, but I have generous PTO (for an American), and the other driver lied to police at the accident and said I entered his lane. Luckily (?), the accident destroyed the windshield washer reservoir in my car, so it dumped all that out at the point of impact. It also destroyed the right front tire, so the rim dug parallel furrows into the street leading from where I ended up back to where the accident happened in my lane.
* If you ever have the opportunity to read an insurance company transcript of yourself, avoid it if possible. They note every dumb "uh" and "um" you utter.
Hopefully, he can find it. Who am I kidding, the SS will guide him back:

Oh, man. I'd love to see him on the witness stand. Especially if it's in the UK and the judge wears one of those funny wigs.
Unfortunately the case is being heard in Miami, Florida.
... because under UK (English) law you can only claim damages for actual harm which is basically zero.
Its because libel cases need to be brought within 1 year of publication.
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