Trump called for deposition in $500m lawsuit against Michael Cohen

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August 01, 2023 View online 1/ Trump called for deposition in $500m lawsuit against Michael Cohen Former President Donald Trump has been called to sit for a deposition in September as part of his lawsuit against his former attorney Michael Cohen.   Mr Trump is seeking $500m from his former fixer. According to NBC News, a Monday filing shows Cohen's attorneys scheduled the deposition for 6 September at a Miami law office.   "Mr Trump has put at issue significant matters relating to at least one of his pending criminal indictments," Mr Cohen's attorneys, Ben Brodsky and Danya Perry, said in a statement to The Independent. "He will have to answer under oath, among other things, exactly what happened with the payments to Stephanie Clifford. Or he can assert his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. Either way, his testimony will strip the lie as to his claims against Mr Cohen."   The Independent has reached out to an attorney for Mr Trump for comment.   Mr Trump's complaint had argued that his client has "suffered vast reputational harm as a direct result of Defendant's breaches," and suggested that Cohen took part in other misconduct that violated New York's Rules of Professional Conduct.   2/ Tammy Daybell's sister slams Lori Vallow's bizarre claims about visits with murder victims In a shocking statement addressing the court just moments before she was sentenced, Vallow said that her children and "her friend Tammy were happy and busy in the spirit world" 3/ New Jersey Lt Gov Sheila Oliver dies after being hospitalised for undisclosed medical issue Ms Oliver was serving as acting governor when she was taken to hospital for emergency treatment 4/ Voyager 2: Nasa receives 'heartbeat' signal from missing spacecraft Probe still flying on its own – and will need to readjust itself to communicate with Earth 5/ House Oversight chair admits GOP can't back up Biden bribery accusations Republicans still haven't produced evidence of any illegal behaviour by President Joe Biden THE BIG QUESTION Why was a Wisconsin teacher fired over a Miley Cyrus song? Even before she was fired this month amid a scandal over suggesting students should sing a song about rainbows, Wisconsin teacher Melissa Tempel had her concerns that the School District of Waukesha might not be the place for her.   Ms Tempel, who is half-Korean and teaches elementary school dual-language immersion classes, says her childhood experiences and research into race and education made her put a special emphasis on making all children feel welcome. "I knew what it felt like to be different and to have that strange veil of, you don't quite fit in here," she told The Independent. "So I've always been very empathetic to other people who might be experiencing marginalisation."   However, with each passing year at Heyer Elementary School, which sits in a conservative part of the state, she felt school officials seeming to go out of their way to make pupils feel less welcome. 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