A number of protesters have filed civil lawsuits against former US President Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.
The reason is that the demonstrators claim to have been exposed to violence and threats from Trump’s security guards in connection with a demonstration outside the Trump Tower in New York back in 2015.
In October last year, Trump testified under oath via a video transmission, and in connection with the trial, an excerpt from the more than four-hour-long testimony has now been published.
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Feared the protesters
In the testimony, Trump says that frightening situations could often arise in connection with large crowds.
The former president highlights, among other things, an election campaign meeting in Iowa in 2016, where he feared that the protesters would throw fruit at him. He therefore urged the public to “knock the shit out of” people who tried to throw tomatoes.
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Trump emphasizes that he expected the security guards to use physical force in such cases.
– I think you have to be aggressive to prevent that from happening. Because if that happens, you could be killed. It is very dangerous, he says according to The Washington Post.
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He continues:
– Things worse than tomatoes were also thrown away, such as pineapples and bananas. It was very violent stuff.
Trump further claims that the call to beat other participants was meant as a joke.
– But maybe there was some truth in it, he says.
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Refuses to interfere
The head of security in the Trump Organization and Trump’s former bodyguard, Keith Schiller, is central to the case. According to the plaintiffs, he hit one of the protesters in the head after he tried to take back a poster that Schiller had taken from them.
Trump has consistently denied that he had any knowledge of the events that took place outside the Trump Tower in 2015. The plaintiffs still believe that Trump – as the top leader of the organization and its security personnel – is co-responsible for what happened.
Trump did not storm out
However, Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, claims that Trump was well aware of what was going on. Cohen claims to have been with Trump in his office when Schiller informed about the protests outside the building. Trump is then said to have asked Schiller to “get rid of the protesters”, writes NBC.
Alina Habba, Trump’s lawyer, reacts strongly to the fact that Cohen has recently been summoned as a witness for the protesters.
– It is very suspicious that Cohen only reports as a voluntary witness six years after the protesters submitted their complaint, she says and refers to him as a former “dissatisfied employee” in the Trump administration.
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