Trump accuser says she will take legal action only if he does
One of the women who accused President-elect Donald Trump of sexual misconduct indicated on Friday that she would take legal action against him only if he follows through with a threat to sue her. "He now has the largest bully pulpit in the world and he has not yet taken back his threat to sue me and the others who came forward," Sumner Zervos, a former contestant on Trump’s reality television show "The Apprentice," told a news conference. Her attorney Gloria Allred said her client, who appeared visibly shaken at the briefing, currently had no intent to bring formal charges against Trump. But she warned that could change if Trump follows up on his vow to sue a handful of women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. "If in fact he sues the women, then it will be my recommendation for them to file a lawsuit for libel," Allred, who is representing three of Trump’s accusers, said. "A president can be sued for actions or statements that he has made prior to his becoming president of ...
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