The media cycle over the last week or so has, rightfully, been rather saturated with reporting on the bombshell news that ex-President Donald Trump was finally officially deposed by his accuser’s legal team in the ongoing defamation case lodged against him by world-renowned writer and advice columnist, E. Jean Carroll, who asserts that the now ex-president raped her in the dressing room of a high-end Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
However, while the E. Jean Carroll development is certainly massive and newsworthy, it’s also worth noting that it isn’t the only deposition the scandal-ridden, washed-up former guy is facing these days.
According to new reporting from Bloomberg News today, ex-President Donald Trump has been ordered to sit for yet another under-oath deposition, this time in connection to a lawsuit lodged against him by a group of investors who allege that they were scammed and defrauded by Donald Trump and his children with regard to pitches they made for a videophone that was peddled on Trump’s now-defunct reality TV show, The Celebrity Apprentice.
The former president was originally supposed to have already been deposed in the lawsuit, but the testimony was postponed as a result of hurricane Ian — though, Trump did unsuccessfully attempt to force the opposition’s legal team to still travel to his Palm Beach resort in the midst of the catastrophic weather.
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Bloomberg reports, “Trump, his company and his three oldest children were sued in 2018 by four investors who claim they were duped by Trump’s promotions into paying thousands of dollars to become independent sellers with ACN Opportunity LLC, which sold a doomed videophone device that the future US president touted as the next big thing. The clunky devices were made obsolete by smartphones.”
Legal representatives for the investors in the lawsuit confirmed that they intend to use the deposition to ask Trump questions about why he chose to begin pitching the company to viewers of his reality TV show around 2008, before calling the venture easy money “without any of the risks most entrepreneurs have to take.”
The lawsuit goes on to accuse Trump of lying to viewers about the investors’ faith in the videophone product also while failing to disclose to the investors that he was being paid to promote the company and the product.
Read the full report here.
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