TRUMP HASTILY SETTLES ASSAULT SUIT THAT LED TO REVELATION HE'S AFRAID HE MIGHT BE KILLED

[Uncle Joe]

BY A PIECE OF FRUIT

In 2022, it’s a full-time job keeping track of all the criminal investigations and civil suits facing Donald Trump. Luckily, today, we can cross one of them off the list: the 2015 lawsuit filed by a group of protesters who alleged they were assaulted by Trump’s security guards outside of Trump Tower. Y’know, the one that led to the revelation that the ex-president thinks it’s highly possible he could be killed by a piece of fruit. But more on the fruit later.

On Wednesday, Trump reached a settlement agreement with the plaintiffs, just days after the case had gone to trial. The suit revolved around a September 2015 incident, in which a group of activists protesting the comments Trump had made about Mexican immigrants while campaigning for president were allegedly assaulted outside of Trump Tower by his security guards. According to the plaintiffs, Trump’s head of security allegedly punched one of the protesters in the head while trying to rip away a sign that read “Make America racist again.”

While Trump claimed in a February 2016 affidavit that he had no knowledge of the situation at the time, and only learned about it the next day, in May, his former fixer, Michael Cohen, said that was a lie. In a sworn deposition, Cohen claimed that he’d told Trump about the protesters when he saw them that morning, at which point the then presidential candidate allegedly told his head of security, Keith Schiller, “Get rid of them.” When Schiller returned, according to Cohen, he told Trump: “I took the sign. He grabbed me, so I hit him across the side of the head,” to which Trump allegedly responded, “Good.” In his own deposition last October, Trump maintained that he “didn’t know about” what happened but also that Schiller “did nothing wrong.” Which brings us to the bit about the former president and his apparent fear of flying fruit.

During that deposition, an attorney for the plaintiffs brought up a 2016 campaign rally at which Trump told attendees, “If you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, just knock the crap out of them, would you?” Asked why, Trump testified that he and his security detail were on high alert that someone was “going to throw fruit.” “You get hit with fruit, it’s—no, it’s very violent stuff. We were on alert for that,” he said. “It’s worse than tomato, it’s other things also. But tomato, when they start doing that stuff, it’s very dangerous. There was an alert out that day.”

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/donald-trump-trump-tower-lawsuit-fruit

[eppur_se_muova]

1. There will never be a better time to post this ...

[Uncle Joe]

2. No there will not,

that was perfect.

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

5. +100 nt

[Chainfire]

3. There is some danger of having a pineapple tossed at you.....

Although most of them you see today are inert.

[Uncle Joe]

4. I was worried about pineapples as well,

they have those sharp pointy things on them, and coconuts could be dangerous too, unless it's shredded.