Trump’s ‘Apprentice’ Film Legal Threats Prove Fake News As Film’s Telluride Screening Starts, U.S. Release Looms
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: When it comes to The Apprentice film screening tonight at the Telluride Film Festival, Donald Trump has proved once again to be all bluster, no bite.
The former president’s campaign may have sent out a vitriolic cease and desist letter earlier this year and threatened legal action against the Cannes premiering Ali Abbasi directed and Gabriel Sherman written movie, but they’ve done nothing.
Back in late May, Trump’s Dhillon Law Group attorneys gave the Apprentice filmmakers until the 27th of that month to essentially shut down anyone ever seeing their acclaimed film.
Calling the Canadian, Irish and American funded flick “a concoction of lies that repeatedly defames President Trump and constitutes direct foreign interference in America’s elections,” the Alexandra, VA-based lawyers swore if Abbas helmed movie did “not immediately cease and desist all distribution and marketing of this libelous farce,” then Team Trump would “be forced to pursue all appropriate legal remedies.” With The Apprentice set for a U.S.
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