Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice,” is suing President Trump for defamation after he called her a liar for accusing him of sexual assault. CreditAndrew Kelly/Reuters

Summer Zervos Subpoenas Trump's 'Apprentice' Records

In a noteworthy legal move, Summer Zervos, a former contestant on 'The Apprentice', who accused Donald Trump of sexual assault, is suing the president for defamation in New York. Alleging that he defamed her by calling her a liar for all the world to hear, Zervos announced through her attorney Mariann Wang of Cuti Hecker Wang on Wednesday that subpoenas had been issued both to Metro-Goldwn-Mayer, which owns archives of 'The Apprentice' and to the Beverly Hills Hotel, where she alleges that Trump groped her in 2007.

In the subpoena issued Wednesday, Wang asked MGM to turn over all documents, video or audio that feature Summer Zervos or Mr. Trump talking about Zervos. The subpoena also seeks any recording in which Mr. Trump speaks of women “in any sexual or inappropriate manner.”

According to the New York Times, "The hotel subpoena seeks records of any stay by Mr. Trump from 2005 through 2009 as well as documents related to his longtime bodyguard, Keith Schiller; his longtime assistant, Rhona Graff; or Ms. Zervos."

In March, Justice Jennifer Schecter of State Supreme Court in Manhattan ruled against Marc E. Kasowitz, who argued that the New York court had no jurisdiction over a sitting president, mandating that the suit proceed. "No one is above the law," Justice Schecter wrote. “It is settled that the president of the United States has no immunity and is ‘subject to the laws’ for purely private acts.”

Trump's team has appealed for a stay in the case.

Hurricane Stormy

The Zervos case joins another defamation suit against Trump, one filed on Monday by Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels. Trump suggested in his typical aggressive and abrasive style that Daniels had concocted a story about being threatened by a man in 2011 who told her to "leave Trump alone" or bad things would happen to her.

On April 17, 2018, Daniels released a composite sketch of the man who allegedly threatened her, offering a $131,000 reward to anyone who can identify the perpetrator.

It was Trump lawyer and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who launched a total uproar on Sean Hannity's Fox News program Wednesday night, admitting that Donald Trump had in fact repaid the money used by Michael Cohen to buy Stormy Daniels' silence about their affair. Then Giuliani offered a third version of why Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey, stating that the reason lay in the fact that Comey refused to tell Trump that he wasn't under investigation.

Both statements contradict the story line as articulated multiple times by Trump and members of his White House staff.