Donald Trump testified Monday, October 18 in New York in a legal proceeding triggered by a complaint from activists who accuse the former US president’s bodyguards of having assaulted them during a demonstration in 2015, while he was a candidate .
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“Donald John Trump sat for about four and a half hours and answered under oath to questions relating to what happened outside of Trump Tower on September 3, 2015.”, told AFP the lawyer for the plaintiffs, Benjamin Dictor. Concretely, the former tenant of the White House was Monday in his offices of the Trump Tower in New York and transmitted by video his testimony within the framework of a complaint and a civil procedure before a court of the district of the Bronx.
On September 3, 2015, three months after Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the 2016 Republican primaries for the presidential election, several people of Mexican origin demonstrated in front of Manhattan’s Trump Tower and today claim that they were severely beaten by bodyguards of the businessman. At the time, plaintiffs were furious over Donald Trump accusing Mexicans of exporting “drug” and “Criminality” to the United States and to be “Rapists”.
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The plaintiffs’ attorney, Mr. Dictor, said nothing about the content of Donald Trump’s testimony, but said “Hope that what happened today serves as an example of the victory of the institutions and the fact that no one is above the law”. The testimony of the 45th President of the United States (2017-2021) could be made public before a jury if the proceedings lead to a trial. In a statement, Donald Trump, who is facing a number of legal proceedings, said he was “Satisfied to have had the opportunity to give (to) version on this ridiculous story “. In particular, he considered that the complainants had invoked “For no reason wounds from which they never suffered”.
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