Former President Trump testifies about the lawsuit of Mexican protesters attacked in front of his tower in New York

By Dareh Gregorian -

Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to New York City to deliver a videotaped statement in a case about the crackdown on his security team at a protest during the first days of his presidential campaign in 2015.

The lawsuit of aggression by its security guards on protesters outside Trump Tower in New York and a defamation complaint from former contestant of

[a competition show between a group of businessmen] Summer Zervos are just two cases in the mass. of civil litigation Trump faces post-presidency.

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The former Republican president has at least 10 civil cases pending, whose ability to delay them has been reduced since he left office in January.

Trump had argued in some of the cases that as acting president he was immune from civil suits.

His office did not respond to a request for comment on the cases.

This is a summary of the status of the main civil lawsuits.

Summer zervos

Zervos, a contestant on the fifth season of

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, claims that Trump discredited her by calling her a liar during his 2016 presidential campaign, after she accused him of being abused with unwanted kissing and groping when seeking professional advice in 2007, a year after appearing on the show.

An attorney for Trump declined to comment.

Trump's lawyers have said their client's statements were true and that they plan to file a counterclaim.

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At a court conference this month, the judge's court clerk said that all statements should be completed by December 23.

Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines on October 9, 2021.Scott Olson / Getty Images

"The defendant is now a private citizen, and he cannot delay this litigation any longer," Zervos' lawyer Moira Penza told the court clerk, according to The Associated Press news agency.

Trump's lawyers could file court papers Monday to set a date for his deposition.

Protesters at Trump Tower

This Monday the lawyers of the protesters who denounce that Trump's bodyguards attacked them during a demonstration in 2015 are preparing to question Trump.

Trump said in an affidavit in 2016 that he is unaware of the altercation and was not directly involved in hiring the security personnel.

His lawyers tried to prevent him from testifying for years, even while he was president, but the judge said his testimony was "indispensable."

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The videotaped statement will take place inside Trump Tower - where the six protesters were protesting in September 2015 Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants when he was running for president - and would be used as testimony when the case goes to judgment.

E. Jean Carroll

Like Zervos, E. Jean Carroll has sued Trump for defamation, claiming he has slandered her by accusing her of fabricating allegations of sexual assault.

Carroll alleges that Trump raped her during a chance meeting at a New York department store in the mid-1990s.

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Trump replied that "she is not my type" and that the incident "never happened", and accused her of making up the story to sell her 2019 memoirs, in which she related the accusation of assault.

Carroll says she still has the dress from the encounter, and her attorney has requested a DNA sample from Trump to help prove her claim.

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The state case was transferred to federal court last year after the Justice Department tried to intervene, arguing that Trump was immune because the statements were part of his official responsibilities.

The judge disagreed, a ruling that Trump and the Justice Department have appealed.

The US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit will hear arguments in December, and the dates for the statements could be set shortly after the court rules.

Business investors

Trump, his sons Eric, Don Jr. and Ivanka, and their company are also being sued in the same court by a group of people who claim the family scammed them into investing in failed businesses the Trumps were promoting.

The lawsuit, which seeks collective action status for thousands of people, alleges that Trump concealed that he was being paid millions to back the companies.

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"From 2005 to at least 2015, the defendants received millions of dollars in secret payments to promote and support ACN," the lawsuit alleges, referring to a multi-level marketing company that was among the businesses the Trumps backed.

In return, Donald J. Trump told would-be investors that “they have a great opportunity at ACN without any of the risks that most entrepreneurs have to take,” and that ACN's flagship videophone was making “sales. worth 500 million dollars a year ”.

Trump also told investors that he had "experienced the opportunity" and "done a lot of research," and that his support "was not about money."

"None of this was true," they add.

Trump's lawyers maintained that the investors did not have a case because none of them paid the Trumps directly, arguing that the family is not responsible for any of their losses.

They also argued that Trump's statements were opinionated and included "pretenses" that no "reasonable investor" would have relied on.

The depositions are supposed to conclude on April 29, and the case is expected to go to trial in 2023.

Mary trump

Trump and other family members are facing a fraud lawsuit from his niece Mary Trump, alleging that the family defrauded her out of millions of dollars from her grandfather's estate.

"For Donald J. Trump, his sister Maryanne and his late brother Robert, fraud was not just the family business - it was a way of life," says their lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court.

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The lawsuit alleges that the trio tricked her into not receiving her fair share of her grandfather's inheritance by presenting her with appraisals that showed it was worth less than it was and having her and her brother, Fred Trump III, sign a settlement agreement. reconciliation in 2001 based on valuations.

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She said she concluded that she and her brother had been scammed into the deal after an investigation into the family's finances by The New York Times in 2018. Donald Trump's brothers did not respond to requests from The Times to comment on their allegations.

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Attorneys for Trump and his brothers have asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuit, claiming their time to file the claims has long expired.

They also pointed to Mary Trump's possession of the records on which she claims to have been misled.

"All the information that the plaintiff claims was unknown to her until 2018 and that forms the basis of her alleged fraud claims, was clearly known to her and her attorney twenty years ago," the Trump team argued.

Trump has also filed his own lawsuit against Mary Trump, alleging that she violated his agreement and a nondisclosure pact.

January 6th

Trump has received at least four lawsuits from Democratic lawmakers and Capitol Police officers over the pro-Trump riots on January 6 in the US Capitol, which disrupted the official counting of electoral votes.

The lawsuits allege that Trump and other defendants violated the Ku Klux Klan law of 1871, which according to one of the lawsuits “was intended to protect against conspiracies, through violence and intimidation, that sought to prevent members of Congress from complying with their official duties. "

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Trump's lawyers maintain that he is immune from lawsuits because he was president at the time and that his fiery speech at a rally on the morning of January 6 was protected by the First Amendment.

They want the cases dismissed.

Statements have not yet been scheduled.