It’s unusual for a president to be in such a legal situation-though not entirely unprecedented. That seems unlikely, because a spokeswoman dismissed the suit immediately.
She added that she would withdraw the suit if Trump said she had been truthful. Trump the opportunity to retract his false statements about me and the other women who came forward,” she said, as my colleague Nora Kelly reported. Trump denied those claims, saying all of the women who had accused him had made their stories up. She claims that he kissed her and pressed his genitals against her nonconsensually. Zervos, who’s represented by the famous lawyer Gloria Allred, was one of the several women who accused Trump of sexual assault or misconduct prior to the election. Last week, a few days before Trump’s inauguration, the former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos sued him in New York State, accusing the president of defamation. Donald Trump is now president and not just a private citizen, but that doesn’t mean he’s free of the controversies that dogged him in his former life.
