布朗克斯的一名法官下令,前总统唐纳德·特朗普必须在下周接受一段录像作证,这是他反移民言论诉讼的一部分。
一群墨西哥抗议者表示,他们在2015年9月特朗普大厦外的一次集会上遭到袭击,原因是当时的候选人评论说墨西哥移民是罪犯和强奸犯。
该诉讼点名了特朗普、他的竞选团队、他的前安全主管基思·席勒以及其他人。
“唐纳德·特朗普将于2021年10月18日上午10点出庭作证...或者,在疾病或紧急情况下,在2021年10月31日或之前的另一个双方同意的日期,”法官多丽丝·冈萨雷斯的命令说。
作为前“学徒”选手萨默·泽沃斯提起的诽谤诉讼的一部分,特朗普可能会在今年年底前再次出庭作证,他指控特朗普于2007年在贝弗利山酒店对她进行性侵犯,特朗普否认了这一指控。泽沃斯声称,特朗普在竞选期间诽谤她,说她在所谓的袭击事件上撒谎。
特朗普还否认了前《Elle》专栏作家让·卡罗尔(E. Jean Carroll)的指控,后者指控卡罗尔在伯格多夫·古德曼(Bergdorf Goodman)的更衣室里谎报了20世纪90年代的强奸指控,并以诽谤罪起诉特朗普。
特朗普的税务申报和商业行为也受到曼哈顿和纽约州地区检察官的刑事调查。
Trump must give videotaped deposition in protest lawsuit, judge orders
Former President Donald Trump must sit for a videotaped deposition next week as part of a lawsuit involving his anti-immigrant rhetoric, a judge in the Bronx ordered.
A group of Mexican protesters said they were assaulted during a rally outside Trump Tower in September 2015 over the then-candidate's comments that Mexican immigrants were criminals and rapists.
The lawsuit named Trump, his campaign, his former head of security Keith Schiller, and others.
"Donald J. Trump shall appear for a deposition October 18, 2021 at 10 a.m. ... or, in the event of illness or emergency, on another mutually agreed to date on or before October 31, 2021," Judge Doris Gonzalez's order said.
Trump faces the prospect of another deposition by the end of the year as part of a defamation lawsuit filed by former "Apprentice" contestant Summer Zervos, who alleges that Trump sexually assaulted her at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2007, which Trump denies. Zervos claims that Trump defamed her during his campaign when he said she lied about the alleged assault.
Trump has also denied the allegations by former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll, who is suing him for defamation after he accused her of lying about an alleged 1990s rape in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman.
Trump's tax filings and business practices are also under criminal investigation by the district attorneys in Manhattan and New York State.