President Donald Trump is pushing back against an effort by a woman suing him for defamation for the president to produce information about other women who have accused him of sexual harassment, deriding it as a means to harass him and distract him from his official duties.
Summer Zervos, a former contestant on NBC’s “The Apprentice” who appeared on the show when Trump was a host and who alleged Trump groped her in 2007, argued that information about a dozen other women who accused Trump of sexual misconduct is relevant to her defamation suit against the president because it might show patterns of behavior—namely that he lures women under false pretenses and subjects them to sudden sexual contact—and that he acted maliciously.
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