Opinion: Protesters forced Trump to testify under oath — a feat Mueller and two impeachments could not achieve – By Kimberly Wehle (The Hill) / Oct 21 2021
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The rule of law has taken a beating in America over the past few years, and continued this week with former President Trump’s ongoing repetition of his big lie that he won the 2020 election and former Trump aide Steve Bannon’s defiance of a valid subpoena from the United States Congress. But in the midst of this flogging, an amazing thing happened on Monday: Trump sat for four hours and answered questions in a deposition taken under oath and under the pain and penalty of perjury.
Take that in for a moment: Trump — who dodged two impeachments and multiple civil and criminal investigations involving his conduct as president and before — failed to outmaneuver the legal system of accountability in a routine civil action for money damages.
The lawsuit was filed in November of 2015 against a number of defendants, including Trump, the Trump Organization and his 2016 campaign for president, by “a group of human rights activists of Mexican origin” who allege that they “were violently attacked by defendant Donald J. Trump’s security guards … and their property destroyed for the express purpose of interfering with their political speech while they were lawfully and peacefully assembled on a public sidewalk” in front of Trump Tower in New York City.
