Trump ordered to spend up to four hours answering questions under oath

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : After Siegel offered to hold the deposition near Mar-a-Lago, Brito reportedly said that he would "do everything in my power to make the president available," while cautioning that "there are limitations of my ability to do so," including logistic concerns involving the Secret Service.
39% : But Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the trial, in July 2023, wrote: "The definition of rape in the New York Penal Law is far narrower than the meaning of 'rape' in common modern parlance, its definition in some dictionaries, in some federal and state criminal statutes, and elsewhere."On Friday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisette Reid ordered Trump and Stephanopoulos to submit to depositions that will take place next week.
36% : Trump was ordered to sit for an in-person deposition in South Florida, while Reid left the door open for Stephanopoulos to take part remotely.
36% : At a court hearing hours before the order was issued, Reid expressed sympathy for defense counsel Nathan Siegel's "frustration" with the president-elect avoiding a deposition, saying that Trump had a "fairly good argument" to delay during the election but now "should be able to make himself available," according to NBC News.
24% : Trump filed the defamation suit earlier this year after Stephanopoulos said during an ABC broadcast in March that a jury found him civilly liable for raping former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll at a New York department store in the 1990s.
23% : A jury instead found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her by denying that an assault took place.

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