Former President Donald Trump released a statement after sitting down for a 4-hour long deposition under oath for a lawsuit alleging that the Trump Tower security team attacked and assaulted some activists during an immigration protest in 2015 after he called immigrants rapists and murderers. The twice-impeached one-term president called the deposition “baseless harassment of your favorite president.” Actually, it’s called consequences.
In response to Trump’s remarks about immigrants, according to The Daily Beast, “Efrain Galicia and four other Mexican activists displayed a “Make America Racist Again” banner outside the building on Sept. 3, 2015. They also wore parody Ku Klux Klan costumes after Trump was endorsed by former KKK leader David Duke.”
Trump referred to the KKK costumes in his statement and claimed that “the Court dismissed almost all of the plaintiffs’ claims,” but we should take that with a grain of salt.
You can read the complete statement below that was tweeted out by Trump’s spokesperson to circumvent the former president’s Twitter ban.
Statement Regarding Today’s Deposition of President Donald J. Trump
“The Klu Klux Klan dressed protester case should have never been brought as the plaintiffs have no one to blame but themselves. Rather than protest peacefully, the plaintiffs intentionally sought to rile up a.. pic.twitter.com/ZG9OsAgmNE
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) October 18, 2021
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Twitter users piled in.
Liz what the fuck is he even talking about
— Janet Snakehole writes in exchange for money (@richwidowsecret) October 18, 2021
Now do the Insurrection Rioters on January 6… “the ‘rioters’ have no one to blame but themselves. Rather than protest peacefully, the ‘rioters’ intentionally sought to rile up a…. TFG
— Jonathan P Vitriol (@DocVitriol) October 18, 2021
Baseless harassment of my favorite president? Somebody was harassing Abraham Lincoln???
— Kit E. Katt (@camelcanoe) October 18, 2021
Not a KKK robe in sight https://t.co/rkdE09Flqf
— Maggie Jordan, @RepJoseOliva calls me a host body (@MaggieJordanACN) October 18, 2021
The mango has till Dec 23 to answer another deposition in the Summer Zervos case . Buckle up butter cup I have a feeling your time has come
— j k (@peppypez) October 18, 2021
Favourite ???? Lost 2 popular votes and only served 1 term
— marcus dc (@Marcusdc77) October 18, 2021
Can’t wait to see that video deposition. Or will he be settling to keep that hidden from the public?
— RJ (@RJWlms) October 18, 2021
Trump should know that it’s spelled Ku Klux Klan, not “Klu,” although he probably didn’t want to say something that sounds similar to coup.
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