Donald Trump’s lawyers are arguing that a defamation lawsuit against him, filed by an alleged sexual assault victim, should be dropped or suspended until his term is finished due to the president’s “extremely busy schedule,” according to Newsweek. The suit was filed three days before Trump's inauguration by Summer Zervos, a former contest on The Apprentice, who is one of more than a dozen women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault.

Zervos first accused Trump of sexual harassment in 2016. Trump called her claims “100% fabricated and made-up”, and in response she filed a defamation lawsuit. On Monday, Trump’s legal team wrote in a court filing, published by Newsweek, that he “denies these unfounded accusations,” but is prepared to prove they are "false, legally insufficient and made in a transparent politically-motivated attack.” However, they’re first asking that the court decide if Trump even has to face the lawsuit, in order to protect him from the “burden of defending against a lawsuit in the first place.” They’re also questioning whether a state court has “any direct control” over a president during his term.

Zervos claimed during a press conference last year that Trump invited her into his bungalow in the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2007, a year after she appeared on the fifth season of his show, for what she thought was a job interview. She said that he then proceeded to grope her and said, “Let’s lay down and watch some tele-tele.” She then accused him of forcing himself on her when she made it clear she didn’t want to sleep with him; she said he eventually gave up and asked that she never contact his private number again.

Trump has denied Zervos’s claims and the claims of his many other accusers, even going so far as to threaten to sue them once in office. In an official statement released on his website, Trump said he “vaguely remembered” Zervos and that he’d never met with her at a hotel or been inappropriate with her. “That is not who I am as a person, and it is not how I’ve conducted my life,” he said.

But consider also that Trump was caught on a leaked tape openly bragging to Billy Bush about groping women in 2005. This tape, leaked in October 2016, led Zervos to realize that her alleged experience wasn’t out of the ordinary, the Los Angeles Times reported. “For the first time, Summer saw Trump’s behavior toward her for what it was: that of a sexual predator who had preyed on her and other women,” Zervos’s lawyer Gloria Allred said.

Related: Summer Zervos Accuses Donald Trump of Sexual Assault

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