“They did not even allow him to mount a defense.”
Nonsense. He was allowed to mount a defense, but it’s hard to mount one when you do not show up for your court date.
“Nonsense. He was allowed to mount a defense, but it’s hard to mount one when you do not show up for your court date.”
Haven’t been following the case I see.
They pulled the same trick the NY courts pulled on Trump. They claimed he failed to provide documents and studies for discovery THAT DID NOT EXIST. As a sanction for failing to provide these documents that did not exist, the judge then ruled that he was not allowed to mount a defense.
What you are referring to are questions from the plaintiff’s lawyers that Jones was only allowed to answer “yes” or “no” to. That is even when the plaintiff’s lawyer asked a compound question. For example, did you drink a beer while you were beating your wife and after you had kicked your dog? ie “questions” that assume things as fact which were not fact. BUT....as per the judge’s ruling.....IF Jones said some of the things in the question were not facts or did not happen etc he would go to jail for contempt of court.
So naturally and under advice of his own counsel, he chose not to answer.
This was a political show “trial”.
This is awesome I can now sue CNN, MSNBC and the Washington Post for saying I’m a racist, white supremacist for supporting Trump, along with 80 million other people....100 trillion dollars please for defaming me...now I can retire.