Apprentice: Prez trying to hide files
Fired former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos charges President Trump is waging a legal war to hide files that could substantiate her charges of his unwanted kissing and groping.
Zervos (inset), in a 15-page Manhattan Supreme Court filing, accused the one-time reality TV star turned White House occupant of trying to hide nine pages of documents that support her “detailed account of their interactions.”
The paperwork “from the defendant’s own files that are at issue in this motion … corroborate plaintiff ’s account of the sexual assaults with even more granularity and with a degree of precision that plaintiff could not have known were she not telling the truth,” reads the appeal filed Thursday on Zervos’ behalf. An email to Trump’s attorney for comment on the latest filing was not returned.
Although sections of the filing were redacted, Zervos’ lawyers state “the documents at issue in this motion … provide even more irrefutable proof that plaintiff’s detailed account of her interactions with the defendant is accurate.”
According to the court papers, Trump claims the pages are confidential because they contain the president’s former cell phone number. The president tweeted out that same phone number back in 2015 after the now-shuttered website Gawker shared his digits with the internet. “That argument is nothing short of absurd,” said her lawyers. “Defendant evidently is aware that the documents at issue closely corroborate plaintiff’s detailed account of their interactions.”
The court papers also note that Trump faces a Dec. 6 deadline date to sit for a deposition, with the president due to submit four potential dates for his questioning.
Zervos charges she was ambushed and sexually assaulted by Trump, who continued his kissing and groping despite her rejections more than a decade ago.