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

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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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1. "Pineapples, tomatoes, bananas...it's dangerous stuff" - Donald Trump

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2. How about paper towels??

[NJCher]

3. I thought I'd die laughing

Over this. Rachel did a great job with it.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. She certainly did!

They need to play this at his sanity hearing!

[SouthernDem4ever]

5. trump supporters use guns and rifles

but I guess that's better than the lethal tomatoes.

[magicguido]

6. I never heard him call AK-47's Dangerous. Only Bananas

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7. Squash look and sound very threatening. So many shapes and colors.

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

[DallasNE]

8. Did Trump Misinterpret

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

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9. Trump says he feared being pelted with 'very dangerous' fruit at rallies

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

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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.