She said that she had been taking a deposition from the GOP candidate when she asked for a break to pump breast milk.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday explained that he had only called a lawyer “disgusting” in 2011 after “she wanted to breast pump in front of me”.
“It was exclusively the fact that she was appearing to do it in the middle of a deposition”, Garten said, according to the Times.
“What kind of a leader of the United States would that be?”
“He had an absolute meltdown when I said I needed the break and it was for breast-pumping purposes”, Beck said. It said that Trump had the verbal exchange with lawyer Elizabeth Beck amid two hours of legal wrangling over a failed Florida real estate project.
He said Trump was upset over the request being made during the deposition.
‘That is what led to his remark, ‘ Garten told the New York Times.
Garten said Beck started to assemble the pump in the deposition room and “started to move the breast pump toward her breast”. “Is he going to behave that way when he’s negotiating treaties with China or Russian Federation?”
Trump had previously told Beck during the 2011 deposition that her questions were “very stupid”, according to testimony drawn from a series of lawsuits since 2007 and obtained by the New York Times.
The breast-pumping incident wasn’t the only time Trump insulted the attorney during the deposition.
Alan Garten, a lawyer for Trump, said his client’s language – which he did not dispute – was not in regards to Beck’s “decision to breast-feed or pump”.
Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Trump’s campaign, didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
He had also asked her, ‘Do you even know what you’re doing?’.
The Becks alleged that their clients lost tens of thousands apiece by investing in Trump’s real estate property. The Times noted that Trump’s “you’re disgusting” remark wasn’t being disputed by either side.
“I think non-presidential is the least of what you could call his behavior that day”, Beck added.
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The rape claim stems from an accusation Trump’s then-wife Ivana Trump leveled at her husband during divorce proceedings in the early 1990s, an allegation she walked back Tuesday.
