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NY court rules Trump must face “Apprentice” contestant defamation suit

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The New York State Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos’ defamation lawsuit against former President Trump could proceed.

Why it matters: The case could be the first time Trump will have to answer questions in court under oath since he took office in 2017, the New York Times reports.

Context: Zervos filed the defamation lawsuit in 2017, saying that Trump lied when he denied ever groping or kissing her without her consent in 2007, with the former president specifically tweeting that Zervos’ accusations were “made up events THAT NEVER HAPPENED.” Continue reading.

Karen Johnson accuses Trump of sexual assault in forthcoming book — alongside 42 other new accusations

Donald Trump grabbed a woman’s vagina, pulled her behind a tapestry, and forcibly kissed her. Then he asked her to stand by his side and smile while he greeted guests out the door at his Mar-a-Lago club. That’s one of the allegations leveled in All The President’s Women, a book by journalists Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy that uncovers what they say are more than 43 new allegations of misconduct against the president.

In an excerpt published Wednesday in Esquire, Levine and El-Faizy tell the story of Karen Johnson, who encountered President Trump at a New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago in the early 2000s. She was at the party with her ailing husband and another relative; shortly after midnight, her husband wanted to go home, Johnson told the reporters, so Johnson walked to the bathroom before they left.

Johnson had met Trump a few years prior at her wedding reception, which was held at the Florida property, but otherwise she didn’t know him well. “I hadn’t seen [Trump] that whole entire night,” Johnson told the reporters. “I was just walking to the bathroom. I was grabbed and pulled behind a tapestry, and it was him. And I’m a tall girl and I had 6-inch heels on, and I still remember looking up at him. And he’s strong, and he just kissed me.”

View the complete October 9 article by Ezra Marcus on the Mic.com website here.

Former campaign staffer alleges in lawsuit that Trump kissed her without her consent. The White House denies the charge.

A staffer on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign says he kissed her without her consent at a small gathering of supporters before a Florida rally, an interaction that she alleges in a new lawsuit still causes her anguish.

In interviews and in the lawsuit, Alva Johnson said Trump grabbed her hand and leaned in to kiss her on the lips as he exited an RV outside the rally in Tampa on Aug. 24, 2016. Johnson said she turned her head and the unwanted kiss landed on the side of her mouth.

In a statement, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders dismissed Johnson’s allegation as “absurd on its face.”

View the complete February 25 article by Beth Reinhard and Alice Crites on The Washington Post website here.

With Kavanaugh confirmation, GOP officially becomes the party of rape

Nearly two years after electing an admitted sexual predator, Republicans voted nearly unanimously to confirm an accused sexual predator to the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh Credit: Saul Loeb, Pool

All but one Senate Republican voted Saturday to confirm credibly accused sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, marking the GOP’s embrace of sexual assault and victim shaming.

The vote to install Kavanaugh comes nearly two years after the election of admitted sexual predator Donald Trump, who was accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women and heard on tape bragging about it.

Since then, Republicans have gone all in on pedophilia, defended the alleged widespread cover-up of sexual assault by a member of their own party, and dropped any pretense of caring about the fact that their party is led by a man who not only admitted to sexually assaulting women, but actually touted it.

View the October 6 article by Caroline Orr on the ShareBlue.com website here.