Paula Jones' Lawyers Are Back to Help Another Woman Sue a President
A group of attorneys—who helped Paula Jones sue Bill Clinton—filed a brief claiming that ‘Apprentice’ contestant Summer Zervos should have the right to sue Trump in state court.
ERIN GLORIA RYAN
09.19.17 8:10 PM ET
An amicus brief filed in a New York court today could cause a major headache for Donald Trump. And it’s all thanks to the Access Hollywood tape and some of the same law professors who helped make it possible for Paula Jones to sue Bill Clinton.
Almost a year ago, on the first Friday in October, The Washington Post published to its website footage of Donald Trump having a little chat with Access Hollywood host Billy Bush. In the 2005 footage, Donald Trump bragged about sexual assaulting women. I don’t even ask, said the future president. I just kiss. He added that he also would “grab them by the pussy.” “When you’re a star, they let you do it.” He later dismissed it as “locker room talk.”
It would have been narratively satisfying if the Access Hollywood tape had broken Trump’s presidential bid. But it didn’t. It made a lot of people mad. It encouraged a handful of women to come forward and claim that yes, actually, Trump had done what he bragged about doing on the tape. It led to a month of news cycles featuring pundits from both sides the aisle expressing outrage, both genuine and performative.
Trump fired back at the women’s accusations with accusations of his own. The women accusing him of sexual assault were liars who were going to get sued, he said. The only place Donald Trump sexually assaults women was, apparently, in his imagination.
Despite all this, Trump still won the election. He didn’t sue the women who accused him of doing what he said he did in that tape. All of that “locker room talk” did nothing to derail him.
Well, maybe it did.
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