Lawyers for former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, who alleged in October 2016 that Donald Trump inappropriately kissed and groped her years earlier, served a subpoena on Trump’s campaign asking that it preserve all documents about Zervos and the other women who accused Trump of sexual misconduct.
BuzzFeed News first reported on the subpoena, which was issued in March but entered into the file of Zervos’ defamation lawsuit against Trump in September.
Zervos’ lawyers asked Trump’s campaign to preserve and produce “all documents concerning any accusations that were made during Donald J. Trump’s election campaign for president, that he subjected any woman to unwanted sexual touching and/or sexually inappropriate behavior.”
Trump’s lawyers have sought to dismiss Zervos’ lawsuit. In July, they claimed the subpoena was “far reaching” and “intended solely to harass” Trump.
Gloria Allred, Zervos’ attorney, provided the subpoena in September as evidence against that claim.
“We are hopeful that the court will deny President Trump’s motion to dismiss, so that we may move forward with discovery,” Allred told BuzzFeed News.
Excellent. Bill Clinton wasn’t protected from civil suits while he was president. Also, in Trump’s own words in 2005:
I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women — I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy.
Appropriate blowback for all those conservative hypocrites like Trump Jr. who sought to make hay on the Weinstein imbroglio while forgetting they had their own serial predator. Oh, and that he’s President. Oh, and that neither he nor they have ever apologized or even acknowledged his abominable behavior. And that he continues to demean women to this day.
Really hope this case has legs.
IF Bill Clinton had ever said anything like the shit Trump talks about women he would have been run out of DC.
We’ve all heard and read what he said way too many times, it’s past time to let it go.
@tena I’m staying tuned for the Weinstein follies. He has a gorgeous talented wife and children, and still he persisted. He and she are both ruined. Good.