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Fruit-fearing previous guy settles lawsuit with protesters assaulted by his security guards [1]
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Date: 2022-11-02
It does seem difficult to find jurors who don’t have strong feelings about Donald Trump in NYC; “it's reportedly because they feared jurors would pummel him.” Recall that Trump was worried about the lethality of thrown fruit.
Donald Trump worried that "dangerous" fruits could be flung at him by protesters, ...
"It's very dangerous stuff," Trump said in the deposition, invoking a fruit-basket worth of potential projectiles, including tomatoes, pineapples, and, perplexingly, bananas. "You can get killed with those things," he said.
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday reached a settlement with a group of protesters who filed a lawsuit alleging they were assaulted by his security guards outside of Trump Tower in 2015, lawyers for both sides said.
The attorneys did not disclose details on the terms of the settlement, which came as the case was in the middle of jury selection.
x Trump settles lawsuit with protesters who allege they were assaulted by his security guards
https://t.co/ciSX6T9yix — Bill Christeson (@BillChristeson) November 2, 2022
The suit stems from an incident in September 2015, when a group protesting then-candidate Trump’s comments about Mexican immigrants allege Trump’s security guards assaulted them on the sidewalk outside Trump’s Fifth Avenue building. The suit charges that Trump’s head of security (Keith Schiller) punched one of the protesters in the head while trying to wrest away his “Make America racist again” sign.
www.nbcnews.com/...
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https://t.co/toUHzlF6xT Inundated with lawsuits and ongoing trials, the Trump Organization on Wednesday chose to settle with anti-MAGA protesters who were beaten up by corporate security guards outside Trump Tower in 2015 rather than trying to convince a Bronx jury. — Mari R (@randlight) November 2, 2022
After three days of struggling to find jurors who didn’t already have strong feelings about former President Donald Trump and his eponymous company—a difficult undertaking in liberal New York City—defense lawyers at the last minute chose to settle.
Minutes after Justice Andrew Cohen sent potential jurors out to lunch at midday, Trump Organization lawyers approached the protesters who filed the suit and presented them with a stack of papers that they quietly signed.
A lawyer representing the Trump Organization, Jeffrey Goldman, was overheard telling the judge that everything was golden—and that nearly everyone had finished signing “the agreement.”
www.thedailybeast.com/…
Q. Mr. President, do you recall1 6 making that statement?1 7 A. Yes.1 8 Q. Okay. And you said that "if1 9 you see someone getting ready to throw a2 0 tomato, just knock the crap out of them,2 1 would you." That was your statement?2 2 A. Oh, yeah. It was very2 3 dangerous.2 4 Q. What was very dangerous?2 5 A. We were threatened. Q. With what?3 A. They were going to throw4 fruit. We were threatened, we had a5 threat.6 Q. How did you become aware that7 there was a threat that people were going8 to throw fruit?9 A. We were told. I thought1 0 Secret Service was involved in that,1 1 actually. But we were told. And you get1 2 hit with fruit, it's -- no, it's very1 3 violent stuff. We were on alert for1 4 that.1 5 Q. A tomato is a fruit after all,1 6 I guess.1 7 A. And you know what --1 8 Q. Judicial notice.1 9 MR. GOLDMAN: It has seeds.2 0 A. It's worse than tomato, it's2 1 other things also. But tomato, when they2 2 start doing that stuff, it's very2 3 dangerous. There was an alert out that2 4 day.2 5 Q. Who were you speaking to when2 you said --3 A. The audience.4 Q. So you were speaking to the5 audience when you said if they saw6 someone getting ready to throw a tomato,7 just knock the crap out of them, would8 you?9 A. That was to the audience. It1 0 was said sort of in jest. But maybe, you1 1 know, a little truth to it. It's very1 2 dangerous stuff. You can get killed with1 3 those things. www.justsecurity.org/...
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