Donald Trump lived in fear of being hit by, um, 'dangerous' fruit
April 28, 2022
Rachel Maddow read this transcript last night and it was hilarious how she made fun of the dangerous fruit.
Former President Donald Trump said he was worried about being hit with tomatoes and other "very dangerous" fruit at campaign rallies.
Yes, you read that right.
In a recently released transcript of a deposition as part of a lawsuit filed by a group of protesters who alleged they were assaulted by Trump's security guards at a 2015 campaign rally, the subject of fruit -- and fruit being flung, in particular -- came up. Here's the full -- and fully epic -- back-and-forth between Trump and Benjamin Dictor, an attorney representing the protestors.
Dictor: Okay. And you said that, 'If you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, just knock the crap out of them would you.' That was your statement?
Trump: Oh, yeah. It was very dangerous.
Dictor: What was very dangerous?
Trump: We were threatened.
Dictor: With what?
Trump: They were going to throw fruit. We were threatened. We had a threat.
Dictor: How did you become aware that there was a threat that people were going to throw fruit?
Trump: We were told. I thought Secret Service was involved in that, actually. And you get hit with fruit, it's -- no -- it's very violent stuff. We were on alert for that.
Trump attorney Jeffrey Goldman: A tomato is a fruit after all, I guess. ... It has seeds.
Trump: It's worse than a tomato, it's other things also. But tomato, when they start doing that stuff, it's very dangerous. There was an alert out that day.
Dictor: Who were you speaking to when you said ...
Trump: The audience.
Dictor: So you were speaking to the audience when you said if they saw someone getting ready to throw a tomato, just knock the crap out of them, would you?
Trump: That was to the audience. It was said sort of in jest. Buy maybe, you know, a little truth to it. It's very dangerous stuff. You can get killed with those things. ... I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit. And some fruit is a lot worse than -- tomatoes are bad by the way. But it's very dangerous ... they were going to hit -- they were going to hit very hard.
Then she read just released deposition from the tax fraud felony case against the Trump organization that provided millions of condos and other perks to forget his name. that was not reported as income to them. In the deposition, Trump’s attorney keeps asking Trump if anyone else had anything to do in setting how compensation is paid to Trump organization employees. Trump kept saying no I am the only one I am the boss.
As Rachel paraphrased “Tax fraud, oh yah, it’s all on me, I am the boss “ The Trump attorney was trying to give the hint that maybe others besides Trump might be responsible for the tax fraud, but Trump just further incriminates himself
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