Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign’s communication director, told The Epoch Times that the team will file a lawsuit.
A film that depicts the rise of the future 45th president’s real estate business in the 1970s and ‘80s called “The Apprentice” has ignited rebuke and threats of litigation from the Trump 2024 presidential campaign.
The film, directed by Ali Abbasi, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20 and portrays the billionaire real estate magnate, played by the Romanian-born Marvel star Sebastian Stan, raping his now-deceased first wife, Ivana Trump, played by Maria Bakalova.
Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign’s communication director, told The Epoch Times that the team will file a lawsuit “to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers.”
“This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have long been debunked,” Mr. Cheung said. “As with the illegal Biden Trials, this is election interference by Hollywood elites, who know that President Trump will retake the White House and beat their candidate of choice because nothing they have done has worked.”
According to a 2016 Associated Press report, Ms. Trump later stated that the rape allegation she made in a 1990 divorce deposition wasn’t literal but instead that she meant