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Government Corruption

Trump Lawyers Granted Deposition of Rape Accuser Amid Claims of Ties to Democrat Funding, Questionable Credibility

2023-04-16

[THEEPOCHTIMES] A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday allowed attorneys of former President Donald Trump

...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
to depose, for questions related to witness credibility, E. Jean Carroll, a writer who accused Trump of sexual assault and defamation.

U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, a Clinton appointee, ordered that Trump’s attorneys, Joseph Tacopina and Alina Habba, can question Carroll on an apparent inconsistency in her sworn testimony in pre-trial depositions about how she funded her defamation lawsuit against Trump.

It came after Trump’s attorneys learned days ago that—contrary to Carroll’s sworn statements in an Oct. 14, 2022, deposition that no one else is paying her legal fees—prominent Democrat donor, LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman, is funding at least some of her legal fees.

This apparent inconsistency "might prove relevant to the question of plaintiffs credibility, in view of the deposition testimony" of Carroll, the judge wrote in his Thursday order.

The lawsuit dated to 2019, when Carroll accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s.

After the then-president denied her allegations in 2019, Carroll filed a defamation lawsuit against him in the same year, which bounced around state, federal, and appellate courts in New York and Washington, D.C.

Trump has denied all of Carroll’s allegations.

Shadow Billionaire Funding Sexual Assault Suit Against Trump Is LinkedIn's Founder

[TRENDINGPOLITICSNEWS] The mysterious billionaire funding a sexual assault lawsuit levied against former President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
by E. Jean Carroll has been revealed after years of speculation.

Reid Hoffman, a billionaire co-founder of social media networking giant Linkedin and now a top donor for the Democrats, has been quietly bankrolling Carroll’s rape suit against Trump, according to court records revealed Thursday.

Hoffman’s identity as the shadow funder for Carroll was disclosed in "last-minute" correspondence between lawyers for both sides.

According to the Daily Beast, Hoffman is not just bankrolling Democrats but also dead set on weakening Trump’s position as the de facto leader of the Republican Party:

Hoffman is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded the professional social network LinkedIn. In recent years, Vox also identified him as a major Democratic donor who has made it his mission to loosen Trump’s control over the Republican Party.

According to Insider, Hoffman’s distaste for Trump’s authoritarian and anti-democratic tendencies has even strained his personal relationship with another Silicon Valley staple, Peter Thiel, who has conversely fashioned himself as a bankroller of right-wing causes.

Trump’s team of lawyers, led by Amina Habba and Joe Tacopina, are now pushing to delay the trial, which is slated to begin in a matter of weeks, in light of the news that Hoffman is behind the suit.

Habba and Tacopina claimed in a letter to the federal judge overseeing the case that Carroll perjured herself, citing an October deposition in which she claimed no one else was funding her lawyers.

Posted by:Fred

#1 That’s not enough even enough time to identify all the voices.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-04-16 14:29

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