No one will soon forget the recent news of ex-President Donald Trump’s lawsuit deposition, in which he allegedly went on an unhinged rant about how terrified he apparently is of being killed by a piece of fruit being thrown at him by a protester. Now, according to the Daily Beast’s Jose Pagliery’s new report, Trump’s fruit fear rant was so bad that his own attorneys frantically scrambled to have it removed from the court filing connected to the lawsuit, because it was “wholly inappropriate” and “prejudicial” to Trump’s own defense.
The lawsuit in question hails back to a 2015 protest at Trump Tower, in which the plaintiffs allege that now ex-President Trump instructed his head of security to assault one of the demonstrators outside his building. During the closed-door deposition in October of last year, Donald Trump reportedly expressed his deep-seated fear that protesters and foes would throw various fruits at him and possibly injure or even kill him, describing things like “pineapples, tomatoes, and bananas” as “very dangerous stuff.”
Lawyers pressed the ex-president on his fruit fear rant, specifically about the tomatoes, prompting Donald Trump to elaborate, “It’s worse than tomato, it’s other things also. But tomato, when they start doing that stuff, it’s very dangerous. There was an alert out that day.”
This bombshell news hit the media cycle in an original report from the Daily Beast and it apparently sent Trump’s legal team into a frantic panic, sending a flurry of emails to the plaintiff’s attorney, Benjamin N. Dictor, vehemently demanding that the ex-president’s embarrassing fruit fear rant be removed from the court filing.
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The Beast’s Pagliery reports that Donald Trump’s attorney Jeffrey Goldman wrote, “That exhibit is unnecessary, prejudicial and needs to be pulled ASAP.”
Goldman’s co-counsel Alina Habba reportedly penned a second email to Dictor, slamming the inclusion of Trump’s bizarre rant in the court filing, fuming, “ASAP Ben. That is wholly inappropriate and prejudicial.”
Goldman went on to later assert, “To make your points you did not need the deposition. You have wrongly released trial testimony.”
However, Pagliery reports, “But it was too late. Half an hour later, The Daily Beast published a story about the testimony, inspiring a comedy segment from Trevor Noah on The Daily Show and commentary on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers and others,” adding, “Later that night, Dictor responded to Trump’s lawyers that he was surprised to meet such fierce resistance, given that they had put him in that position in the first place.”
See the full report from the Beast right here.
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