Trump Campaign Vows To Sue ‘The Apprentice’ Filmmakers Over Scene Of Ivanka Trump Rape By Then Real Estate Mogul
deadline.comAlready fighting dozens of indictments and a so-called hush money trial in New York, Donald Trump wants to head back to court over the movie that took Cannes by storm today. “We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers, the Trump campaign’s Steven Cheung declared Monday over the The Apprentice film by director Ali Abbasi.
Depicting the rise of Trump (Sebastian Stan) out of his father’s shadow thanks to the well-connected and ruthless Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), the film just debuted in the South of France to a standing ovation of 11-minutes.
Among the many incidents from Trump’s early years in the 1970s and 1980s to his Art of the Deal fame, there is a scene in the film of the past and potentially future president raping his then wife Ivanka (Maria Bakalova).The former Mrs.
Trump, who died in 2022, had spoken of the sexual assault in the years following the couple’s divorce, but later recanted the incident in the decade before her death.
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