Trump Urges Court to Halt Former ‘Apprentice’ Contestant’s Defamation Suit
- President seeks to have case thrown out, citing immunity
- Onetime ‘Apprentice’ contestant says Trump groped her in 2007
Summer Zervos, right, with lawyer Gloria Allred at the New York County Criminal Court on Dec. 5, 2017.
Photographer: Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images
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President Donald Trump’s lawyer asked a New York appeals court to put an end to a defamation lawsuit by a former “Apprentice” contestant who claims the mogul groped and kissed her without permission in 2007.
Summer Zervos’s alleges that Trump defamed her by calling her story "phony," but the U.S. Constitution grants immunity to sitting presidents from lawsuits in state courts, Trump’s lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, said Thursday at a hearing in Manhattan.