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Wednesday 6 november 2019

Lawyer: Trump's phone records back details of woman's claim

By JENNIFER PELTZ and retweeted a message
Associated Press calling them "a hoax."
NEW YORK (AP) — Presi- Both Trump and Zervos are
dent Donald Trump's cell Republicans.
phone records show a call Zervos sued Trump for def-
to a former "Apprentice" amation, saying he dam-
contestant on a day when aged her reputation by
she says he subjected her calling her a liar.
to unwanted kissing and The phone records show
groping, according to a "that numerous specific
court filing. details that Ms. Zervos has
Records filed in Summer provided about those in-
Zervos' defamation suit and teractions are true," Zervos
obtained Monday by The attorney Mariann Wang
Associated Press indicate wrote in a previously re-
that Zervos got a call from dacted portion of an Oct.
Trump's phone on a day in 24 court filing. At the time,
December 2007, when she Trump's lawyers were ob-
says he rang to invite her to jecting to public disclosure
dinner. She says she went of the phone records, but
hoping for career advice they have since dropped
and ended up being sexu- their opposition.
ally assaulted. The phone records are for
The records also show a a now-defunct Trump cell-
call to Zervos from Trump's In this Oct. 18, 2018, file photo, Summer Zervos leaves New York state appellate court in New York. phone number that leaked
phone the next afternoon Associated Press during the campaign; he
and calls from her to his any documents." nessman made unwanted presidential campaign to later invited people to call
phone in the following Zervos, a California restau- advances twice in Decem- accuse him of sexual as- it for a campaign message.
months. Her lawyers say the rateur, was on the Trump- ber 2007: once in his Trump sault or sexual harassment The phone records show
phone calls support that hosted reality show "The Tower office in New York, over the years. a call to Zervos from Los
she's telling the truth. Apprentice" in 2006. She and later at the Beverly Hills Trump called them "liars" Angeles on Dec. 21, 2007,
Trump lawyer Marc Kasow- says she later contacted Hotel in California. trying to harm him with "100 when Trump's calendar
itz said Monday that Zervos' him in hopes of furthering She was among more than percent fabricated" stories. shows he was due to fly
claims "are entirely meritless her career. a dozen women who came He also issued a statement there and head to the Bev-
and not corroborated by Zervos says the then-busi- forward during his 2016 denying Zervos' allegations erly Hills Hotel.q
911 supervisor played Netflix movie as caller sought help

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) station after being told an sor Julie Vidaud's computer Kirkland told Vidaud the The investigation was in-
— A South Florida 911 officer was on the way. and found the most used call was handled so badly conclusive on what Vidaud
dispatch supervisor was "It was a very hard situa- applications were Netflix, he would describe it as a was doing at the time of
watching "I Am Mother" on tion," Guadalupe Herrera Hulu and Xfinity TV. They "catastrophic failure," the the incident, but she's fac-
Netflix while a caller unsuc- told the newspaper. "It was learned the Hilary Swank report said. ing discipline for "failure to
cessfully tried to get help a drive-by shooting. My movie was playing for two He noted in the report that supervise," and is expected
after someone shot out her windshield was shattered. hours during the time Her- Vidaud spends an inordi- to receive a two-day sus-
car's windshield, an internal Nobody showed up." rera tried to get help. nate amount of time con- pension without pay, po-
affairs investigation found. Investigators later learned Vidaud told Sgt. Dave Kirk- ducting personal business lice said.
Records show a 34-minute the call was logged as a land that movies played on her police work com- She promised she would no
delay in the June 9 call be- "suspicious incident" rather in the background as she puter, including watching longer have Netflix play-
ing dispatched to an offi- than a priority. Investigators worked. movies and streaming TV. ing at work, according to
cer. wanted to know how the The report noted that Vi- According to Kirkland, the the report. The agency has
The victim told the South error happened and how daud said "there was a 911 dispatcher who han- now changed its policy to
Florida SunSentinel she the supervisor missed it. good chance that Netflix dled the first call from Her- prohibit any streaming of
called back 16 minutes lat- As part of an internal affairs was running but she would rera was fired. The second media services during shifts,
er and finally drove herself investigation, investigators not have been watching person was disciplined and the agency told the news-
to the Coral Springs police pulled data from supervi- during that period of time." has since been terminated. paper. q