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Rhiannon12866

(255,525 posts)
Thu Apr 28, 2022, 02:13 AM Apr 2022

Deposition Transcript Reveals Trump Fear Of Flying Fruit - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC



Rachel Maddow shares a bizarre transcript from a deposition taken from Donald Trump in a civil case in which protesters are suing him for rough treatment at the hands of security outside of Trump Tower, in which a lawyer explores Trump's unusual preoccupation with the possibility of being injured or killed by a thrown piece of fruit. Aired on 04/27/2022.


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Deposition Transcript Reveals Trump Fear Of Flying Fruit - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Apr 2022 OP
"Pineapples, tomatoes, bananas...it's dangerous stuff" - Donald Trump LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2022 #1
How about paper towels?? Rhiannon12866 Apr 2022 #2
I thought I'd die laughing NJCher Apr 2022 #3
She certainly did! Rhiannon12866 Apr 2022 #4
trump supporters use guns and rifles SouthernDem4ever Apr 2022 #5
I never heard him call AK-47's Dangerous. Only Bananas magicguido Apr 2022 #6
Squash look and sound very threatening. So many shapes and colors. twodogsbarking Apr 2022 #7
Did Trump Misinterpret DallasNE Apr 2022 #8
Trump says he feared being pelted with 'very dangerous' fruit at rallies LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2022 #9

twodogsbarking

(18,779 posts)
7. Squash look and sound very threatening. So many shapes and colors.
Thu Apr 28, 2022, 10:14 AM
Apr 2022

They hide in the leaves too. Never know when they will strike.

DallasNE

(8,008 posts)
8. Did Trump Misinterpret
Thu Apr 28, 2022, 12:27 PM
Apr 2022

The news of Cawthorne being caught trying to sneak a loaded gun past airport security?

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,847 posts)
9. Trump says he feared being pelted with 'very dangerous' fruit at rallies
Fri Apr 29, 2022, 01:40 AM
Apr 2022

TFG is an idiot and these memes will be fun to use



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/27/trump-says-he-feared-being-pelted-with-very-dangerous-fruit-rallies/

Former president Donald Trump said he feared protesters would hit him with tomatoes, pineapples and other “very dangerous” fruit at his campaign rallies, declaring in a sworn deposition that “you can be killed if that happens.”

Trump’s comments about the potentially lethal effects of projectile produce were made public Tuesday with the release of excerpts of 4½ hours of videotaped testimony in a lawsuit filed by a group of protesters who allege that Trump’s security guards assaulted them in 2015.

“I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit,” Trump said in the October 2021 deposition, according to a transcript of the proceedings.

He added that “tomatoes are bad” and that “some fruit is a lot worse.”

“But it’s very dangerous. … I remember that specific event, because everybody was on alert. They were going to hit — they were going to hit hard,” he said.
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