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Between this and your response to me, I think you're moving the goalposts.
No, it wasn't.
Yeah, he did, but chose not to. And chose not to bring any witnesses.
@ymeskhout gives a reason why that shouldn't be the case, since the rules were laid out ahead of time. I'll add that if a guy can't say anything without lying, maybe he's got a bigger problem.
Regardless of how I feel about Mr. Bragg, I don't have any reason to believe he controls the rules of this civil suit. One that's been in the making since before he was elected.
More importantly, it didn't take any new legal theories! You had to construct this hypothetical lest you admit Trump might have made an error. Can't have that. Anything that looks like a blunder on his part was just 5D chess, preempting some new and exciting abuse of power by his haters.
Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best.
I’m not sure where talking to you I mentioned statute of limitations. But yea changing the statute of limitations after they expired is problematic (though not just applied to Trump).
“Chose not to”. Ya sure a guy who’s already had issues with improper investigations over choosing to talk (Flynn - Logan Act) should just want to have a thousand people investigate him for anything be possible said wrong for perjury.
“Fishing expeditions”
How many investigations has Trump and/or Trump associates had investigations into them?
I can summarize your entire response too. Yes us conservatives have faced a lot of bullshit so yes we have trust issues in the “process”
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If a guy declines to testify on his own behalf because he can't say anything under oath without being accused of lying, and if he can then be forced by law to spend his own money to defend himself whilst again unable to take the stand himself, the problem he has is known as a witch hunt.
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