Trump says sex assault accuser was ‘politically motivated’
Claude Solnik
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
President Trump claims the former “Apprentice” contestant who accused him of molesting her in a hotel room years ago was “politically motivated” to make the accusation and, therefore, he was exercising his “right to defend himself” when he called her a “liar.”
In a new Manhattan court filing seeking to have Summer Zervos’ defamation lawsuit tossed, Trump says Zervos “inserted herself into a political debate” by making “false accusations at … the height of a presidential campaign.”
He simply “exercised his First Amendment right to defend himself,” claims Trump’s attorney, Marc Kasowitz, in a new court filing.
Kasowitz is asking a judge to toss the case.
Zervos’ feminist firebrand attorney Gloria Allred has countered that “no man is above the law and that includes the president of the United States.”
In October 2016, Zervos, who was a contestant on Season 5 of “The Apprentice,” announced at a press conference that Trump kissed her several times and tried to force himself on her at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2007.
“President Trump’s reply brief appears to be a rehash of arguments that he has already made,” claims Allred, who said she looks forward to any questions the court may have being posed in an upcoming hearing.
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