Trump dismisses sexual harassment claims as ‘fake news’

When Donald Trump started his election campaign last year in November, several women came forward with their allegations against him for sexually harassing him. However, Trump dismissed all those claims and nothing was heard of the issue until recently.

A woman by the name of Summer Zervos—a former contestant on Trump’s reality show The Apprentice—has subpoenaed his presidential campaign for any documents pertaining to sexual harassment allegations against him. Zervos herself claimed that the Trump groped her during a 2007 meeting which was held to discuss her career prospects.

The subpoena was filed in New York State Supreme Court and it sought all documents from his campaign pertaining to “any woman alleging that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately”, identifying nine by name, the subpoena said.

When President Trump was asked about the subpoena at an impromptu White House news conference, he called it ‘totally fake news’.

“It’s just fake. It’s fake. It’s made-up stuff, and it’s disgraceful, what happens, but that happens in the — that happens in the world of politics,” he said.

Zervos came up with the allegations for the first time during a press conference which she held shortly before the November 8 presidential election. During the conference she said that Trump kissed her, touched her and tried to get her to lie down on a bed with him during a meeting about a possible job.

Trump has been denying her allegations from the start.

Zervos sued Trump for defamation in New York State Supreme Court after he denied her account of their meeting and accused her and other women of lying.

The subpoena — part of that lawsuit — was served in March and entered into the court file in September.

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