Tag: defamation lawsuit

New York appellate court allows Summer Zervos’s defamation suit against president to proceed

A New York appellate court ruled Thursday that President Trump must face a defamation lawsuit filed by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, one of about a dozen women who accused Trump of sexual misconduct shortly before the 2016 election.

The ruling, which Trump’s lawyers plan to appeal, means that attorneys for Zervos may have the opportunity to question Trump under oath in the coming months. The current schedule sets a deadline of June 28 for depositions, with document and electronic discovery expected to be concluded by the end of July.

Trump called Zervos and the other women who made accusations against him “liars,” prompt­ing Zervos to file the lawsuit in 2017.

View the complete March 14 article by Felicia Sonmez and David A. Fahrenthold on The Washington Post website here.

Stormy Daniels sues Trump for defamation

The following article by Emily C. Singer was posted on the mic.com website April 30, 2018:

Porn actress Stormy Daniels is using President Donald Trump’s favorite legal tactic to cause more trouble for the embattled commander-in-chief: suing him for defamation.

Daniels filed a lawsuit Monday alleging Trump defamed her when he posted a tweet attacking the sketch Daniels released about a man she says threatened her in a parking lot in 2011, when she was looking to talk publicly about her alleged affair with Trump.

“A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!” Trump tweeted April 18, retweeting another account that suggested the sketch looked like Daniels’ ex. Continue reading “Stormy Daniels sues Trump for defamation”