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Trump Could Be Forced To Testify On Sexual Allegations — And If He Lies He Could Be Impeached
Business Insider ^ | 12-3-2017 | Haley Peterson

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers; boobinsider; fakemedia; fakenews; fbi; fourth100days; garbage; grope; impeachment; impeachtrump; mueller; rosenstein; sexualharassment; tds; trump
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1 posted on 12/03/2017 4:42:09 PM PST by blam
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All President Trump has to do is assert executive authority and that is the end of it.


2 posted on 12/03/2017 4:43:44 PM PST by WMarshal (John McCain is the turd in America's punch bowl. McLame cannot even fake an injury.)
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To: blam

So only Cankles can use the “I don’t recall” defense?


3 posted on 12/03/2017 4:44:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: WMarshal

>>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.


4 posted on 12/03/2017 4:46:21 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Conservatives should do daily affirmations: reading/repeating the 9th and 10th Amendments)
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To: blam

Yeah, anyone can make an accusation and then force the POTUS to testify. /s


5 posted on 12/03/2017 4:46:34 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: blam

All he has to do is keep his mouth shut if it ever goes to trial.

It won’t at least for several years.


6 posted on 12/03/2017 4:46:58 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: blam

THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE. Five organizations in search of a crime.


7 posted on 12/03/2017 4:47:01 PM PST by Hildy
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To: blam

And monkeys COULD fly out of my butt.


8 posted on 12/03/2017 4:47:28 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Jim Robinson

Yeah.

Well, now...


9 posted on 12/03/2017 4:47:50 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: blam
Trump Could Be Forced To Testify On Sexual Allegations — And If He Lies He Could Be Impeached

Everyone lies about sex.

Perjury about sex is not an impeachable offense.

Just ask any democrat who was in office in 1999.


10 posted on 12/03/2017 4:48:01 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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Trump Could Be Forced To Testify On Sexual Allegations — And If He Lies He Could Be Impeached

No bias there. [/sarc]

11 posted on 12/03/2017 4:48:16 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: blam

Very fake news.


12 posted on 12/03/2017 4:48:52 PM PST by conservative98
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Soros minions at work.


13 posted on 12/03/2017 4:49:02 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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It's just sex, can't we just move on? Sheesh you mean-old right-wing nutcases...

Oh wait, it's coming from the hypocritical left.

14 posted on 12/03/2017 4:49:58 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (10% pure, flat income tax for everyone. No deductions, credits, or loopholes.)
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To: blam

Yet another leftist media rag spewing forth on their latest wet dream. These idiots live in the realm of non-reality.


15 posted on 12/03/2017 4:50:04 PM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: freedumb2003

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.


16 posted on 12/03/2017 4:50:47 PM PST by WMarshal (John McCain is the turd in America's punch bowl. McLame cannot even fake an injury.)
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not a chance


17 posted on 12/03/2017 5:03:36 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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This is a Paula Jones type of case. Clinton had to testify. There is a pretty powerful recent precedent.


18 posted on 12/03/2017 5:03:38 PM PST by sphinx
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To: WMarshal

Leftist insider has one of the highest bounce rates around ~72%


19 posted on 12/03/2017 5:05:06 PM PST by crusher2013
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To: blam

All this does is make him stronger. The left isn’t learning any lessons from Trump’s election or Judge Moore’s campaign.


20 posted on 12/03/2017 5:06:56 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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