'Apprentice' Contestant Backs Up Trump Sexual Assault Claim with Documents
by EG
Former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos says Donald Trump didn't even ask before he kissed and grabbed her in a hotel room in 2007. Now she says she has documents to prove that she and Trump were where she says they were at the time. Read on for details.
For the first time, season-five Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos has laid out some of her evidence supporting claims that Donald Trump attacked her in a hotel room in 2007.
Zervos is suing Trump for allegedly defaming her by denying a sexual assault. During the last presidential election, as Trump was under fire for boasting to Access Hollywood's Billy Bush about grabbing women's genitals, Zervos was one of many women to come forward to accuse him of repeatedly touching her, groping her and kissing her against her will. "I never met her at a hotel," responded Trump, who added that allegations from his accusers were "100 percent fabricated and made-up charges, pushed strongly by the media and the Clinton campaign."
NEW: #Apprentice star #SummerZervos wants 9 pgs of docs (emails, calendars) unsealed in defamation case as they corroborate #sexualassault claims @realdonaldtrump.
— Christine Beswick (@bychristinebswk) October 24, 2019
He wants them sealed b/c they have a "private" old cell # he once tweeted to millions.https://t.co/fNpoyFStn4
Trump couldn't prevent the lawsuit from moving forward. In response to the argument that the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution barred a sitting president from being sued in state court, the judge responded that "no one is above the law."
Now the case is headed to the home stretch and perhaps a trial right in the midst of the 2020 election. The judge has also ordered parties involved in the case to undergo deposition by Dec. 6. At a hearing earlier in the week, Trump was directed to provide four potential dates for his deposition.
➡️ The latest in the #SummerZervos case:
— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) October 25, 2019
“[Zervos claims] the remaining documents provide further details to support her account of meetings with Trump and that he lied and defamed her when he denied those accounts.” https://t.co/7o2UqFdLWI
While discovery is a couple months away from finishing, there are some interim disputes.
According to court papers filed Thursday, the Trump Organization is attempting to designate nine pages of documents as "confidential" because they contain Trump's former cellphone number. Zervos' lawyers respond that this is "absurd" and that Trump has already publicized his former cellphone to millions of Twitter followers during the 2016 campaign.
The biggest bombshells from Thursday's filing have to do with the evidence that Zervos says she has collected to "corroborate" her account of a meeting with Trump during the time in question and a sexual assault.
Those include emails to Trump's secretary Rhona Graff to set up a meeting with him and responses from her. There are also calendar entries for Trump and his bodyguard showing how they flew from Las Vegas to Los Angeles in December 2007 and stayed at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Many of these documents are from Trump Organization files. Zervos' attorney Mariann Wang writes calendar entries and itineraries "line up with Ms. Zervos’s detailed public account with striking accuracy."
Get the rest of the story at The Hollywood Reporter.
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