Posted on 06/05/2018 7:20:59 PM PDT by Enlightened1
President Trump must be deposed in a defamation lawsuit brought last year by a former contestant on "The Apprentice," a judge in Manhattan ruled Tuesday.
In a court order, Judge Jennifer Schechter set a Jan. 31, 2019, deadline for both parties to be deposed in the lawsuit, the New York Post reported. The parties also now face a July 13 deadline to issue requests for documents in the case.
The lawsuit brought by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on "The Apprentice," alleges that Trump defamed her by publicly claiming she had fabricated claims that Trump groped and kissed her without her consent in 2007.
According to the Post, the lawsuit is set to go to trial sometime after June 7, 2019.
Despite Schechter's order that Trump must sit for a deposition, there's still a chance he could avoid that. His lawyers have appealed the case to the New York Court of Appeals, and are still awaiting a response.
Mark Kasowitz, a lawyer for Trump, also said on Tuesday that he would seek to block Zervos's lawyers from asking the president about other women who allege they were sexually harassed or assaulted by Trump, the Post reported.
Schechter's order came two weeks after Kasowitz argued in a court filing that the president is immune to prosecution, and offered point-by-point denials of the allegations against Trump.
Filing the response, however, allowed Zervos's legal team to request to formally question the president under oath.
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Didn’t bubba have to testify in the Paula Jones suit? Didn’t bubba settle out of court?
These black robed idiots need to be held accountable for their personal attacks.
I get all these women confused......Isn’t she the one who wrote Trump letters saying how great he was/is, only to turn on him when he wouldn’t be at the opening of her restaurant?
Now the POTUS must sit for a deposition for denying an accusation made on the campaign trail. Interesting precedent.
.... Deep State is still running things.
Filed JAN 17, 2017 and the "defamation" occurred when he called all of the allegations by numerous women to be "totally false", "never happened", etc. By calling her allegations a "hoax" and "phony"... THAT is the alleged defamation.
The complaint itself... https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4334374-Summer-Zervos-s-Defamation-Lawsuit-Against.html... reads like a DNC/CNN talking points memo.
It also admits that she tried to get a job with Trump in 2009 and 2010, after these "unwanted gropes and kisses" in 2007. Ahem. Then when he declares for the Presidency, she approaches him in 2016 to "give him a chance to apologize". SMH.
So when do we sue Hillary for defamation for calling us Deplorables?
The judge is woman. Haven’t bothered trying to dig into her political background, but suspect the obvious.
Supreme Court ruled that the President can be sued in a civil suit while in office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_v._Jones
” I think it is BS, but if the judge allows questions about other accusers no doubt this will get embarrassing.”
Like I said, “this.”
Annnnnnnd Gloria Allred is her attorney. Of course she is... *eye roll*
But I think she is saying that he defamed her more recently.
I don’t believe any judge can make the head of one branch of the Federal gov’t do anything.
The only power anyone holds over a president is through Congressional impeachment and conviction.
The judge himself needs to be impeached.
And that’s just Allred...
No surprise this comes out now. Again, the deep state know they are in trouble so pulling anything they can.
Oh, yeah. Unstoppable hotness. The last time I saw a face that pockmarked, I was looking at photos of Mars.
Venus could be pock-marked, but with all of of the blemish cover-up being used and volatilized, who knows.
Clinton was deposed in the Paula Jones case and the video of his deposition was released to the public.
Just write the tart a check.
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