Posted on 01/17/2017 8:30:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred has filed a defamation lawsuit against President-elect Trump on behalf of Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice.” Zervos is one of several women who came forward with accusations of sexual harassment late last year. From NBC News:
The suit, filed Tuesday morning, claims Trump knew his statements about Zervos and his other accusers would subject them to “threats of violence, economic harm and reputational damage.”…
“Ms. Zervos is willing to dismiss her lawsuit if he will retract his false statements about her and acknowledge that what Summer said about Mr. Trump and his alleged conduct is and was the truth,” she said…
Trump has vehemently denied the claims. In response to Tuesday’s press conference, Trump’s spokeswoman Hope Hicks provided the following statement to NBC News: “More of the same from Gloria Allred. There is no truth to this absurd story.”
Allred announced the lawsuit at a press conference Tuesday. Zervos made a brief statement saying, “On November 11, 2016, I called on Mr. Trump to retract his statements about me, calling me a liar.” She continued, “I also called upon him to state that what I said about his behavior toward me was true.
“More than two months have gone by and he has not issued that retraction. I wanted to give Mr. Trump the opportunity to retract his false statements about me and the other women who came forward. Since Mr. Trump has not issued a retraction as I requested, he has therefore left me with no alternative other than to sue him in order to vindicate me reputation.”
Allred cited Clinton vs. Jones as a precedent for the fact that even the President of the United States can be subject to a deposition and, potentially, a trial. The NY Times points out another way in which the Paula Jones case could be a precedent:
When Paula Jones sued Bill Clinton, powerful conservative backers bankrolled and pressed her case until the sitting president of the United States was deposed under oath — and fatefully denied having sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky. The result: the first and only impeachment of an elected president.
Ms. Zervos could well have the same kind of political muscle behind her — from the left.
Here is the full press conference:
Allred is a scumbag.
I guess Gloria’s ambulance chasing around LA isn’t netting her any money. I swear this woman is the symbol of everything wrong with our legal system.
I thought Airhead already played this bimbo before the election and it didn’t work out.
Since the Demoncrats are ACTUAL Communists, they're breaking their own laws.
I’d be stupefied if Gloria Allred DIDN’T try to sue Donald Trump.
Her enemies list lines up quite nicely with my heroes list!
If the other women have not been subjected to the alleged kind of retribution, her so-called case is disproven on the spot.
"A celebrity", only in her own mind ..
Leftard attny. who only comes out of her cave around election time to harass Pubies.
Gloria going for that Hedge Hog look as she drags her snoot through the dirt looking for crumbs......
Timed to try to rain on Trump’s parade, literally.
Chasing ambulance
She will wish she was vacationing in Aleppo Syria by the time DJT’s lawyers are done with her ......
All I’ve heard about are two kisses, supposedly on the lips.
Is that the extent of the assault?
What is the statute of limitations on this?
Nine plus years seems like an awful long time for errant kisses to be remedied by a suit.
How do you disprove this sort of thing?
How does she prove it?
This is just nuts.
She seemed to have nailed that decades ago, from my perspective.
So, if Trump Williams admit that everything he said about her was a lie and ever she said about him was true, then she’ll drop the suit and get no money. That begs the question “who’s paying Allred” cause you know she doesn’t work for free.
Gloria’s always “representing” these Bimbos from Nowhere. Just guessing she doesn’t end up getting a dime from any of these “clients.”
Going for,she nailed it barf....Face only a mother could love on payday.
She’s the Kim Jong-un of litigators ..... threatens, stomps her feet, propagandizes a non issue then takes a few railcars full of cash in out of court agreements and doesn’t return the railcars ...... yeah choo choo she’s pulling a train for cash again.
LOL !
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