LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A New York judge on Tuesday [3-20-18] ruled that President Donald Trump must face a defamation suit brought by a former contestant on ‘The Apprentice’ who accused him in 2016 of making unwanted sexual advances.
The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by Summer Zervos in state court in Manhattan in January 2017. Weeks before the election, Ms. Zervos accused Mr. Trump of kissing and groping her without her permission about a decade earlier. After Mr. Trump suggested on Twitter, at campaign rallies and during presidential debates that her story was a ‘hoax’ and ‘phony,’ and made up to get attention, Ms. Zervos sued, claiming he had ‘debased and denigrated’ her ‘with false statements.’
Mr. Trump has said the lawsuit has no merit and has vehemently denied the sexual-misconduct accusations, which Ms. Zervos made during a news conference in the wake of the release of a 2005 ‘Access Hollywood’ tape of Mr. Trump talking lewdly about women.”
–Jacob Gershman and Joe Palazzolo, “Judge Allows Former ‘Apprentice’ Contestant to Press Defamation Lawsuit Against Trump,” The Wall Street Journal online, Mar. 20, 2018 4:45pm