(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Five protesters who allege that President Trump’s security team assaulted them in 2015 have subpoenaed the president to testify at trial. The case was brought against six defendants, including then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, the Trump Organization and Trump security director Keith Schiller, three months after Trump announced his candidacy. But Trump’s legal team, two weeks after receiving the subpoena, advised plaintiffs’ attorneys that Trump intended to disobey it. In a Wednesday court filing, plaintiffs’ attorneys asked Bronx County Supreme Court Judge Fernando Tapia to compel Trump’s attendance; the trial is scheduled for March 6. In the Jan. 11 letter, Trump attorney Lawrence Rosen claimed that Trump did not need to testify.

Source: Washington Post January 31, 2019 16:59 UTC