原告的一名律师称，前总统唐纳德·特朗普周一在纽约市特朗普大厦出庭作证，持续了“几个小时”。
律师本杰明·迪克特说:“唐纳德·约翰·川普的证词和其他证词没什么不同，和我宣誓后审查过的其他雇主没什么不同。
这起诉讼源于2015年特朗普大厦外的一场抗议活动，当时的候选人特朗普发表言论称墨西哥移民是罪犯和强奸犯。
这位律师说，一名示威者埃夫兰·加利西亚(Efrain Galicia)在试图取回一个被安全部门没收的标志时，遭到特朗普安全人员的“暴力袭击”。
“特朗普应对这些行为负责，”迪克特周一在作证后表示。“公共人行道是神圣的。”
特朗普在作证后发布的一份声明中表示:“原告没有和平抗议，而是故意试图激怒人群，他们在中午时分，穿着三k党的长袍和兜帽，封锁了第五大道特朗普大厦的入口。“当安全部门试图缓和局势时，他们不幸遭到了原告自己的嘲讽和暴力。看到这是什么，在我今天作证之前，法院驳回了几乎所有原告的索赔——除了一个毫无根据的索赔，他们从未遭受的伤害，以及暂时失去了一个毫无价值的纸板标志，很快就还给他们。"
特朗普在声明中表示:“经过多年的诉讼，我很高兴有机会讲述我这边这个荒谬的故事。
Dictor说，周一的证词从上午10点开始，特朗普“在律师在场的情况下回答了几个小时的问题”。
Dictor表示，他期待着尽快向陪审团提交特朗普的宣誓证词。
迪克特拒绝描述这位前总统对具体问题的具体回答。然而，当被要求描述证词时，迪克特说:“你们都在新闻上看到总统很多年了，现在五六年来几乎每天晚上都有。总统和你想象的一模一样。”
这位律师说:“他回答问题的方式是你期望特朗普回答问题的方式，他的举止也是你期望特朗普的举止。”。
Trump sits for deposition in lawsuit brought by demonstrators alleging assault
Former President Donald Trump sat for a deposition Monday at Trump Tower in New York City that lasted "several hours," said an attorney for the plaintiffs suing him over an alleged assault.
"The deposition of Donald John Trump went not unlike any other deposition, any other employer that I've examined under oath," the attorney, Benjamin Dictor, said.
The lawsuit stems from a 2015 protest outside Trump Tower that followed then-candidate Trump's comments that Mexican immigrants were criminals and rapists.
A demonstrator, Efrain Galicia, was "violently attacked" by Trump's security personnel as he attempted to retrieve a sign that security had confiscated, the attorney said.
"Mr. Trump is responsible for those actions," Dictor said Monday after the deposition. "The public sidewalks are sacred."
"Rather than protest peacefully, the plaintiffs intentionally sought to rile up a crowd by blocking the entrance to Trump Tower on 5th Avenue, in the middle of the day, wearing Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods," Trump said in a statement released following the deposition. "When security tried to deescalate the situation, they were unfortunately met with taunts and violence from the plaintiffs themselves. Seeing this for what it is, prior to my deposition today, the Court dismissed almost all of the plaintiffs’ claims -- except for a baseless claim for injuries they never suffered, and the temporary loss of a worthless cardboard sign which was soon thereafter returned to them."
"After years of litigation, I was pleased to have had the opportunity to tell my side of this ridiculous story," Trump said in his statement.
Monday's deposition began at 10 a.m. and Trump "answered questions for several hours with his lawyer present," Dictor said.
Dictor said he looked forward to presenting Trump's sworn testimony to a jury as soon as possible.
Dictor declined to describe specific answers the former president gave to specific questions. However when asked to describe the deposition, Dictor said, "You all have seen the president for many years on the news, almost every night for five or six years now. The president was exactly as you would expect him to be."
"He answered questions the way you would expect Mr. Trump to answer questions, and conducted himself in a manner you would expect Mr. Trump to conduct himself," the attorney said.
