Summer Zervos: Trump sexual assault accuser ‘has evidence corroborating attack’

New documents in a lawsuit from the former Apprentice contestant detail her account of mogul’s alleged 2007 attack

Summer Zervos, who was on the fifth season of Donald Trump‘s reality TV competition The Apprentice, has reportedly introduced evidence that the president attacked her in a hotel in 2007, corroborating the basis of a lawsuit that could be headed to trial in the midst of an impeachment probe and 2020 elections.

Ms Zervos is the latest in a string of women to share claimed of assaults by Mr Trump, who boasted of “grabbing” women’s genitals in an audio recording shared widely before his election in 2016.

Mr Trump has vociferously denied assault allegations. Ms Zervos sued Mr Trump following his denial of her claims, and in March, an appellate court ruled that he could not prevent the suit from moving forward despite his lawyer’s argument that Mr Trump’s current office put him above the law.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ms Zervos has presented evidence – including emails, calendar entries, itineraries and other documents – that are consistent with her account of her alleged 2007 assault.

The Trump Organisation is also seeking to redact certain documents which likely contain Mr Trump’s mobile phone number, which suggests Ms Zervos’ evidence also contains phone records.

Recently filed court documents say that Ms Zervos had reported her assaults to “family members and close friends immediately after they occurred and then again over the years”.

The memorandum says Ms Zervos has confronted Mr Trump in a phone call and in an email sent through his secretary Rhona Graff in April 2016.

Ms Zervos also contacted Fox News in August 2015, according to court documents, and reported that Mr Trump had invited her “to a hotel room under the guise of working for him but instead acted inappropriately” towards her.

“The fact that Plaintiff sought legal counsel in 2011 and spoke about this to others including a news organisation – years before the events of 2016 at issue in this case – strongly supports the inference that her core narrative is true,” the memorandum states.

Ms Zervos also submitted the results of a polygraph test.

The latest developments in her lawsuit arrive as Mr Trump and his Republican allies craft a response to an impeachment probe investigating Mr Trump’s alleged abuses of power in his dealings with Ukraine and an exchange of information that he could use to potentially damage Democratic rival Joe Biden.