Posted on 12/03/2017 4:42:09 PM PST by blam
While everyone's talking about special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigation into the Trump campaign's communication with the Russian government, the president's lawyers are preparing for an altogether different case.
On Tuesday, in a New York state Supreme Court hearing, they're expected to try to have a defamation case against the president dismissed. If they fail, the president could be forced to testify on allegations that he sexually harassed more than a dozen women.
The suit was filed by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on "The Apprentice," who claimed last year that Trump "very aggressively" kissed her, groped her breasts, and began "thrusting" his genitals at her in a 2007 meeting at The Beverly Hills Hotel. Her claim is that Trump damaged her reputation when he called her a liar.
The hearing comes amid a torrent of scrutiny around sexual misconduct by powerful men in the US following bombshell revelations regarding years of alleged sexual abuse by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. The allegations cost Weinstein his job and, subsequently, women have come forward with a variety of allegations against high-profile journalists, lawmakers, and executives.
Trump's lawyers are expected to argue that the suit against him should be thrown out or delayed until after his term on the grounds that a sitting president can't be sued in state court. Part of their reasoning is that a trial could distract Trump from his official business as president.
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All President Trump has to do is assert executive authority and that is the end of it.
So only Cankles can use the “I don’t recall” defense?
>>All President Trump has to do is assert executive authority and that is the end of it.<<
I am NOT suggesting President Trump even came CLOSE to the Clinton rapes.
But President Trump can certainly invoke now-instantiated bj clinton rule.
Yeah, anyone can make an accusation and then force the POTUS to testify. /s
All he has to do is keep his mouth shut if it ever goes to trial.
It won’t at least for several years.
THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE. Five organizations in search of a crime.
And monkeys COULD fly out of my butt.
Yeah.
Well, now...
Everyone lies about sex.
Perjury about sex is not an impeachable offense.
Just ask any democrat who was in office in 1999.
No bias there. [/sarc]
Very fake news.
Soros minions at work.
Oh wait, it's coming from the hypocritical left.
Yet another leftist media rag spewing forth on their latest wet dream. These idiots live in the realm of non-reality.
Yes he could. And I would like to see pathetic McTurtle justify an impeachment trial against Trump when he did nothing to fight Obama’s crimes. Who knows, maybe McConnell could get the GOPe Senate lemmings to vote for an impeachment but it would mean the death of the Republican Party and perhaps civil war.
not a chance
This is a Paula Jones type of case. Clinton had to testify. There is a pretty powerful recent precedent.
Leftist insider has one of the highest bounce rates around ~72%
All this does is make him stronger. The left isn’t learning any lessons from Trump’s election or Judge Moore’s campaign.
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