Just days after jury selection began, Trump settled with the protesters who’d sued him over the alleged 2015 assault.
that he’d told Trump about the protesters that day, at which point the then presidential candidate allegedly told his head of security,“Get rid of them.” When he returned, Schiller, according to Cohen, 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 year, Trump maintained that he “didn’t know about” what happened but also that Schiller “did nothing wrong.
Then Trump testified that yes, it would be his expectation that if one of his security guards saw someone about to throw a tomato, they should knock the crap out of them, adding that other fruits would necessitate a beating too. “A tomato, a pineapple, a lot of other things they throw,” he said. “Yeah, if the security saw that, I would say you have to…I think that they have to be aggressive in stopping that from happening. Because if that happens, you can be killed if that happens….
It’s not clear why Trump chose to settle, but it’s possible he was worried about how much money he was going to have to pay out, particularly in light of where the trial was taking place. Asjust before jury selection kicked off: “Bronx juries, they engage in Robinhood-ism. They take from the rich and give to the rest of us—their verdicts are always generally right at the ceiling. There’s no limit in the Bronx. They love to give money to the people.
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