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3rd case--today! I didn't know about this one. I knew Schiller and others roughed people up. I didn't know a case was wending its way through the courts about it. Case alleges Trump knew, condoned and authorized HIS private security to rough protesters up! Oh well, at least this case will get BURIED by the others.
New York judge says Trump ‘authorized and condoned’ his security guards to rough up protesters
BRAD REED
21 AUG 2018 AT 14:43 ET
Donald Trump at a rally in Ottumwa, Iowa (Evan Guest/Flickr)
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A New York State judge has shot down an effort by President Donald Trump to dismiss a lawsuit against his private security guards for allegedly roughing up demonstrators who were protesting outside of Trump Tower months after he announced his presidential run.
The New York Law Journal reports that Bronx Supreme Court Justice Fernando Tapia on Tuesday declined to dismiss the suit filed by protesters who claim they were roughed up by the president’s security team back in 2015.
Specifically, Tapia said that Trump himself “authorized and condoned” his security guards to rough up the protesters, and he specifically cited the president’s statement that “maybe they deserved to be roughed up” on the grounds that “it was absolutely disgusting” what the protesters were doing.
The lawsuit was filed by five Latino activists who claim that they were roughed up by longtime Trump bodyguard Keith Schiller and two other men who were employed as part of the then-candidate’s security personnel...
New York judge says Trump 'authorized and condoned' his security guards to rough up protesters
New York judge says Trump ‘authorized and condoned’ his security guards to rough up protesters
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BRAD REED
21 AUG 2018 AT 14:43 ET
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A New York State judge has shot down an effort by President Donald Trump to dismiss a lawsuit against his private security guards for allegedly roughing up demonstrators who were protesting outside of Trump Tower months after he announced his presidential run.
The New York Law Journal reports that Bronx Supreme Court Justice Fernando Tapia on Tuesday declined to dismiss the suit filed by protesters who claim they were roughed up by the president’s security team back in 2015.
Specifically, Tapia said that Trump himself “authorized and condoned” his security guards to rough up the protesters, and he specifically cited the president’s statement that “maybe they deserved to be roughed up” on the grounds that “it was absolutely disgusting” what the protesters were doing.
The lawsuit was filed by five Latino activists who claim that they were roughed up by longtime Trump bodyguard Keith Schiller and two other men who were employed as part of the then-candidate’s security personnel...
New York judge says Trump 'authorized and condoned' his security guards to rough up protesters