Trump Given A Subpoena For All Documents Relating To Assault Allegations

[demmiblue]

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Source: BuzzFeed News

A high-stakes legal showdown is brewing for President Donald Trump, as a woman who said he groped her has subpoenaed all documents from his campaign pertaining to “any woman alleging that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately.”

The previously unreported subpoena was issued in March but entered into the court file last month. The White House did not respond to a request for comment, nor did Trump’s attorney.

Summer Zervos, a former contestant on the Trump’s reality TV show The Apprentice, accused Trump of kissing and grabbing her when she went to his bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2007 to discuss a possible job at the Trump Organization. After Zervos made the accusation last October, just weeks before the election, Trump denied her accusation and called it a lie.

She responded by suing him for defamation. As part of that suit, her lawyers served a subpoena on his campaign, asking that it preserve all documents it had about her.

Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/subpoena-orders-trump-to-turn-over-documents-from-assault?utm_term=.elLZwonMM6#.bcWXdzZllB

[Iliyah]

1. t-rump's lawyer making up shit like "you can't touch this" a-hole cause he's prez

crap.

[karynnj]

16. We all know that there was a President forced to deal with a civil suit on harrassment

Is this a civil suit or a criminal suit? If civil, it would seem there was a precedent in the 1990s.

[bench scientist]

17. Defamation is a civil suit. n/t

[DK504]

2. So he can sexually molest a woman, but Comey releases a

complete bullshit letter given the election a traitor, while seemingly to forget to mention the TIC has been under investigation since early 2016. Yep, none of that seems to matter. Come gets to walk away and the country is imploding.

Thanks ya'll.

[Orrex]

3. In a sane world, Trump's own words and deeds would be enough

Alas, we're not living in that world.

[riversedge]

4. change in headline ...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/subpoena-orders-trump-to-turn-over-documents-from-assault?utm_term=.fl5l9jKRZq#.qa5aKyAN4n



Trump Given A Subpoena For All Documents Relating To Assault Allegations

A woman who said Donald Trump groped her has subpoenaed his campaign for documents about “any woman alleging that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately.” Trump has denied her accusations and is fighting the subpoena.
Posted on October 15, 2017, at 10:50 a.m.



A high-stakes legal showdown is brewing for President Donald Trump, as a woman who said he groped her has subpoenaed all documents from his campaign pertaining to “any woman alleging that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately.”

The previously unreported subpoena was issued in March but entered into the court file last month. The White House did not respond to a request for comment, nor did Trump’s attorney.

Summer Zervos, a former contestant on the Trump’s reality TV show The Apprentice, accused Trump of kissing and grabbing her when she went to his bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2007 to discuss a possible job at the Trump Organization. After Zervos made the accusation last October, just weeks before the election, Trump denied her accusation and called it a lie.

She responded by suing him for defamation. As part of that suit, her lawyers served a subpoena on his campaign, asking that it preserve all documents it had about her.




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Summer Zervos (R), who previously accused President-elect Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her, speaks at a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred at Allred's office in Los Angeles on November 11, 2016.
Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images

Summer Zervos (R), who previously accused President-elect Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her, speaks at a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred at Allred's office in Los Angeles on November 11, 2016.

They also asked for “all documents” concerning other women who have accused Trump of groping them, including Jessica Leeds, Mindy McGillivray, Rachel Crooks, Natasha Stoynoff, Temple Taggart, Kristin Anderson, Cathy Heller, Jill Harth, and Jessica Drake. The subpoena seeks “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.” Last year, Trump tweeted a blanket denial, saying, “Nothing ever happened with any of these women.”

The subpoena did not make its way into the court file until last month, when Zervos’ attorneys, including the high-profile lawyer Gloria Allred, filed it as part of motion disputing a contention from Trump’s legal team that her subpoena was too broad..............................

[demmiblue]

5. Thanks for the heads up!

[Grammy23]

6. Well, I guess we can expect this woman to be thoroughly demonized

and trashed by tRump. He has a long history of these attacks and his standard response is to trash the woman, make HER out to be the liar. I hope she told several people at the time of the assault what he did. Maybe a diary entry. Something to back her up. We KNOW this asshole did it given his track record and his own words that indict him. At some point the number of women making these accusations will be in numbers too large to ignore. That is part of what took Bill Cosby down. Just the sheer number of women willing to put themselves through the meat grinder of public scrutiny opened doors in people’s minds.

One way or another, Trump must be held to account for these crimes. And make no mistake, those were crimes. Time to face your accusers, Donnie. Don’t be surprised if we believe them and NOT you! Your history of lying to our faces has done you in.

[yallerdawg]

7. If there were only a precedent for presidential misconduct regarding women.

[Cold War Spook]

8. The Republicans don't have the balls

The Republicans don't have the balls to impeach him.

[yallerdawg]

9. When the occupant of the White House supports primarying those Republicans...

and Democrats take back a House or two, it'll be a different story.

[ProudLib72]

10. These were consensual gropings!

Nothing wrong with a good Christian man having consensual gropings with eight or more women! Leave him alone and let him do his prezidential golfing!

In other words: IOKIYAR

[Sunlei]

11. Trump paid off the child rape case a week before the election. Girls Lawyer threatened media interv

Girls Lawyer threaten media interview for her client and immediately paid off and silenced.

[iluvtennis]

20. Yep, indeed. A multi million dollar settlement if I recall correctly.

[Kimchijeon]

24. I was just thinking about that too- smart she remained anonymous

I can understand not wanting to be threatened and publicly ruined for something that happened as a 13-year old. But in light of so many corroborating stories, it really made it easy enough to believe the charges. Especially given the other cases of assault and predatory behavior.

Given that all the sex crime type shit (not to mention all the other criminal/shady bullshit) was a matter of public record this whole time and not used to dismiss him from the get-go tells me the powers that be don't give a shit, there is still profit to be had by keeping the distraction shitshow installed.

[Sunlei]

25. in sworn deposition she was scared. Threatened to be 'disappeared' like happened to another minor.

[red dog 1]

30. Do you have a link for that?

I just did an extensive Google search and couldn't find anything about any "settlement"

The alleged victim's lawyer, Judy Bloom, did schedule a press conference last September not "a week before the election".. where the victim of the alleged rape was supposed to "reveal her identity"..but the press conference was canceled after she received death threats.
As far as I know, Judy Bloom has said nothing about any settlement.
If that case was settled, why would the alleged victim's website still be up and running now?
http://www.justiceforkatie.com

[More_Cowbell]

32. I hadn't heard about a settlement, either

I thought she was scared into disappearing, by Trump's fans.

[Sunlei]

37. not really, perhaps she is one of the woman speaking out now. Trumps sexual exploits don't matter

anyway to Republican voters, Republican party or his own family.

[red dog 1]

45. "perhaps she is one of the women speaking out now"?

I don't think so.

She wasn't a beauty contestant or some other woman who now claims that the bastard grabbed her & kissed her, or something like that.

She alleges that Trump & his convicted pedophile friend Epstein RAPED her when she was only 13-years-old.
She stated that in a signed deposition, in a federal court, under oath; and a second woman, (who worked for Jeffrey Epstein) said, under oath, that she witnessed the rape.

If what she claims is not true, why hasn't Trump & his lawyers sued her for slander and/or defamation of character?

[Achilleaze]

12. Incarcerate republican sexual predators

Lock him up.

[JusticeForAll]

38. Erm, how about we incarcerate all sexual predators? N/t

[Nitram]

40. Exactly. This isn't a political issue, it is a human rights issue.

[Jim__]

13. Good luck to her.

Trump will resist the subpoena with every possible legal maneuver and if he loses all that he will continue to resist in violation of the law. This woman is showing tremendous courage in pursuing this. I wish her the best.

[Mr.Bill]

14. The Subpoena will be ignored.

And nothing will happen. Absolutely nothing.

[Nitram]

42. It will be one more brick in the case against Trump that will bring him down.

We are heading towards a threshold where even die-hard Republicans will want to get rid of the rotting, stinking corpse of this enormous orange albatross tied around their collective necks.

[Abouttime]

15. The Special Counsel?

Why can't Mueller take this up and charge Trump with sexual assault?
Like Al Capone it doesn't matter what the charge against tRump is, just that there is a felony indictment that will lead to impeachment.
Why can't Mueller just cut to the chase and come up with some evidence and charge this monster with a crime?

[bench scientist]

18. The statue of limitations has likely passed for a sexual assault case.

The Special Counsel may only bring federal charges against Trump. It's interesting to note the venue; this case it was filed in NY state court, not Federal Court. State crimes and misdemeanors are unpardonable by a U.S. President. Please note however this case is a civil suit for defamation and would attach only civil liability, not a criminal penalty.

[red dog 1]

29. The Statute of Limitations can be waved in cases of sexual assault

as it was in the case of the woman who alleged that Trump (and Jeffrey Epstein) raped her back in the early 1990s when she was 13-years-old at one of Epstein's "Lolita" parties at his NYC townhouse.

I followed that case closely and posted numerous threads on it last year.

In that case, which was a N.Y. Federal District Court civil case, the plaintiff dropped the charges after receiving numerous death threats.
(Judy Bloom was her last attorney)

Despite the fact that THIS case was filed in NY State Court, I believe the statute of limitations may still be waved by the judge, since it is a sexual assault case

(More info on Trump's alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl)
http://www.justiceforkaty.com.

[Abouttime]

31. Why isn't Mueller all over this!?

Get a judge to waive the statue of limitation, special counsel charges a felony sexual assault and bingo! Trump is out of office!

[red dog 1]

35. Good question!

Mueller is supposedly already working with the New York State Attorney General on other alleged charges against Trump & his crime family, and Trump wouldn't be able to pardon anyone issued an indictment from the NY Attorney General, assuming that the case goes to court and the defendant is found guilty like Don Jr.?, Jared Kushner?, Trump himself?

[Calista241]

36. There has to be some kind of evidence that a sexual assault was committed

And it can’t be the interview where he said in the Access Hollywood interview. They need to prove that he assaulted that specific woman at the specific time she claimed.

Proof that a meeting took place is not sufficient. They need a confession (either verbal or in writing) from Trump, or some kind of physical evidence that proves his guilt. No judge, or Mueller, will allow a case to even get off the ground in criminal court without it.

It’s probably why she’s going after him in civil court, something Mueller can’t do.

[Abouttime]

39. All we need is a charge not a conviction

If Mueller can just get tRump something he will have no choice but to resign. A conviction is irrelevant, just one charge and the press will foment a massive backlash from the American public giving tRump no choice but to leave office under darkness.
So c'mon Mueller, make it happen!

[Calista241]

41. That is possibly the most corrupt thing Ive ever heard.

It will come out if Mueller or anyone makes up charges for the purposes of impeachment. Mueller, and anyone who collaborated with him, would find themselves in jail for fraud or conspiracy.

And I don’t think he’d get impeached immediately. Trump and his people have already smeared this woman. It’s already public knowledge that there’s no proof any sexual assault happened. It’s simply an accusation at this point, and Trump will say it’s an accusation by a Hillary supporter.

IMO, faking charges to get an impeachment would have significant negative impact on Democrats in coming elections. We’d get labeled as corrupt, lying cheaters; willing to do anything to make Repubs look bad.

[Abouttime]

44. Really? Remember who we are dealing with here, tRump after all

Trump is a dictator who stole the highest office in our government, he must be removed by any means. Mueller wasn't appointed to just uncover a Russian conspiracy, he was appointed to remove trump from office.
If the Germans had a chance to get rid of Hitler in 1937 by a bit of judicial trickery do you really think they would be harshly judged by history? No, they would be viewed as brilliant and brave. We are in the exact same position today, the future of our country, the future of our planet are on the line.
Just look at what is happening now, we are facing war on he Korean Peninsula, war with Iran. The climate is spinning out of control at a rate unimaginable to us just a few years ago. Three more years of Trump might put us beyond the tipping point, this isn't just a political crisis, this is a crisis on a planetary level.
So yeah, so what if Mueller pushes the envelope? Do you really think there would be pushback from the right? Once tRump is charged and removed his supporters will be afraid to show their faces in public, we know who they are, they are traitors to our country. The tRump supporters are lucky we are better people than them, if the shoe was on the other foot and our side stole an election and installed a dictator they would round us up by the millions.
Our side will be satisfied with the removal of tRump and his cabal and the restoration of a legitimately elected leader. Honestly, the only other outcome is a civil war. The tRump supporters will return to the rock under which they came to watch their NFL, NASCAR and reality television drink Busch light and stare at their gun collection and hunting trophies.
Hillary was right, his people are 'deplorables' and we must keep them in check, after all they are a dying breed, remove their leader and shun them and they'll just fade away.

[riversedge]

43. No, I do not

believe Mueller would be involved in what you suggest. Not at all.

[lindysalsagal]

19. This would be the end of any normal political career. In a normal year.

But it won't be given any attention, with the coming nuking of Korea, Iran, and our healthcare system.

[pnwmom]

21. The wording would appear to include the anonymous 13 year old rape victim,

whose case disappeared days before the election.

The subpoena seeks “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.”

[Sunlei]

23. The 13 year old with the employee witnesses depositions was from yrs ago. During the time Trump par

During the time Trump had fabulous parties with that convicted child molester, WTF was his name? Jeffery? Was not during the campaign.

[pnwmom]

26. None of the alleged behaviors the various women alleged took place during the campaign.

The subpoena was for information about accusations made during the campaign -- which would include hers, since a lawsuit was filed during the campaign.

The subpoena seeks “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.”

[Sunlei]

27. ok, Thanks. Perhaps the child isn't bound by a non disclosure from her 'settlement' from Trump.

[pnwmom]

28. The subpoena is for any documents held by the campaign itself, which might allow the lawyers

to discover the identity of the now adult woman.

But I suspect the campaign has already destroyed them.

[LiberalLovinLug]

22. gawd I wish just one of these charges would stick (no pun intended)

We need another blue dress. Something undeniable proof.

[red dog 1]

33. Kick!

Zervos is suing Drumpf for defamation....That's great!
Even if the statute of limitations for her 2007 sexual assault allegations isn't waived by the judge, she still can make things very difficult for the Orange Bastard with her defamation lawsuit.

I say, "Good for you, Summer!"

[Madam45for2923]

34. WOW! Trump Given A Subpoena For All Documents Relating To Assault Allegations