• Flying Squid
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    71 month ago

    He’s in the middle of a campaign and you want him to put it on hold to go to court?

    • @Tramort@programming.dev
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      -31 month ago

      For the one hour that it takes to provide testimony and cross examination? Yes.

      This is his lawyer’s time, not POTUS’ time

      • @Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world
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        61 month ago

        1 hour of testimony in a simple divorce proceeding for a blue-collar worker is the result of dozens or hundreds of hours of working with the attorney on documentation and preparation. I imagine it would be an order of magnitude more work if it’s the POTUS suing for defamation. It also feeds into the “both sides” narrative to see Biden sitting in a courtroom, same as Trump. It doesn’t matter that Biden’s not the defendant, and it doesn’t matter that it’s a civil matter instead of a criminal one because the footage of Biden in a courtroom is more than enough to sell that story to the sycophants.

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          In a divorce case you need testimony to understand what the other spouse did.

          In a slander case what evidence does Biden need to testify about?

          All the evidence is a matter of public record.