Posted on 07/29/2015 9:54:02 PM PDT by Red Steel
GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump disputed claims from a female lawyer who said he called her "disgusting" when she asked to take a break to breast-pump during a 2011 deposition.
Elizabeth Beck told CNN's "New Day" on Wednesday that Trump had "an absolute meltdown" when she requested a break to pump breast milk for her 3-month-old child. Special: Hackers Release Top Secret Money Making Software to Public
"He got up, his face got red, he shook his finger at me and he screamed, 'You're disgusting, you're disgusting,' and he ran out of there," Beck said.
Trump denied the claim to CNN in an interview aired later on "CNN Newsroom," saying that Beck wanted to stay in the room while using the pump.
"She wanted to breast pump in front of me, and I may have said that's disgusting, I may have said something else. I thought it was terrible," Trump told CNN's Dana Bash. "She's a vicious, horrible person."
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That’s not exactly what the video shows, at least the CNN interview of the ‘mother’.....
Regardless, my take on it is that he’s a clever businessman and I’m guessing he just used that request to “break” as an opportunity to put the opposition off their game. He did succeed in postponing the deposition that day, rescheduled to a later time.
In the 90s in NYC, there WAS a trend for women to breastfeed in public. No cloth over the breast but whipping it out in public and daring anyone to say anything. I can still remember working for a lib company (which turned me conservative) and seeing working mummies breastfeeding, pumping and then dumping their infants on their secretaries to “take a meeting.” What a turnoff it was. So I totally get Trump’s outrage. He was luckier than me - he had the power to shout at her.
This lady lawyer was on tv. She is obviously looking for a cause of action in everything she does. She is arrogant about it also. She shouldn’t be on the deposition if she is milking herself. Why should all concerned have to wait for her at those rates of pay. She should be on leave.
My gut says she is losing the existing lawsuit she is "lawyering" and probably a typical "no winnee, no monee" suit
Meg owes him an apology for the rape story...should be interesting.
Trump has been a public figure for a very long time and all over the tabloids. I’ll wager that there isn’t a whole lot more we don’t know.
Extremely unprofessional, if true, on the part of the attorneyette.
As a veteran of many depositions, as well as a breast-pumping wife on two occasions, continuing the deposition while pumping would have been, at best, awkward.
Take a break, go off the record, come back in 20-minutes.
Anything else is an in-your-face move designed to distract the deponent.
I’m somewhat surprised that she was in a condition to breast-pump in the first place ...
He’s right its bizarre and disgusting. Completely over the top unacceptable. I would have left the room and I’m a woman. What guy wouldn’t leave the room?
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