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"I think people like politics. And they like to be around the name and maybe me," Trump said in the deposition, according to The Washington Post.



"I think people really dig it."

Trump said that a manager at one of his properties in Palm Beach, Fla., said the presidential run led to "the best year we've ever had."

"Well, maybe the success of the campaign. You know people have said there's never been anything like this," Trump said.

The deposition, taken in June, was part of a $10 million breach-of-contract lawsuit Trump filed against chef Geoffrey Zakarian.

Zakarian pulled out of an agreement to open a restaurant in Trump-owned Washington, D.C., hotel after he launched his campaign with a series of inflammatory comments about Mexicans.

Trump said when he launched his campaign in June 2015 that Mexican immigrants to the U.S. “have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”