Auto door suit hits Trump, his team , and his daughter , who claim they were harassed by Trump during the 2016 campaign , but it’s the first time the suits has targeted the President directly.
The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleges that Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, pressured her father to change his mind on the lawsuit and then pressured him to end the suit , and that Trump pressured her to take a leave of absence from her role as senior adviser to the President.
The suits alleges that Ivanka Trump also forced her father “to make false statements about the nature of the relationship with his former business partner, the President, and to conceal and alter the nature and scope of the business relationship” and that she pressured her husband Jared Kushner, Ivanka’s husband, to give her access to the president.
Trump has not commented on the lawsuits or his business dealings, but the suit says he “was aware of the allegations against the President and directed the President to provide a written statement of facts and arguments for the claims” and to provide “full disclosure” to the suit.
The president is a litigant in the lawsuit, which was filed on January 27 and has not yet been settled.
The lawsuit alleges that in November 2016, Ivanka told her father that she would not be taking any further action against the Trump Organization, despite the President having promised to.
The New York Post reported last month that Trump and Kushner are the primary owners of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Washington, D.C. and a stake in a New Jersey golf course.
Kushner, who is married to Ivanka’s sister, is also an executive at the Trump National Golf Club.
Trump, who was a 2016 presidential candidate, has said the suit is “a complete and total sham” and said it was “100 percent a witch hunt.”