Trump sends stop and desist letter to dam ‘Apprentice’ movie

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Trump sends stop and desist letter to dam ‘Apprentice’ movie

Former President Trump despatched a stop and desist letter to filmmakers purchasing a film about his early profession.

The movie, referred to as “The Apprentice,” focuses on Trump’s rise to prominence within the Seventies and Eighties and on his relationship with Roy Cohn, the infamous mob-connected New York lawyer who labored with Trump earlier than Cohn’s 1986 dying.

“The movie is a good and balanced portrait of the previous president,” the producers of the movie mentioned in a press release to Selection, which first reported the stop and desist letter. “We would like everybody to see it after which determine.”


The movie, referred to as “The Apprentice” focuses on Trump’s rise through the Eighties. ©Mongrel Media/Courtesy Everett Assortment

“The Apprentice,” directed by Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi, debuted on the Cannes Movie Competition on Monday and depicts a scene during which Trump violently rapes his late ex-wife, Ivana. Trump has denied the allegation he assaulted his spouse.

Ivana Trump, who died in July 2022, alleged in a 1989 divorce deposition that Donald Trump had sexually assaulted her — a declare she later retracted.


Donald Trump speaking into a microphone at a campaign event in Crotona Park, South Bronx on May 23, 2024.
Crew Trump has referred to as the movie lies and is preventing its launch. GC Photographs

“We will likely be submitting a lawsuit to deal with the blatantly false assertions from these fake filmmakers,” Trump marketing campaign spokesman Steven Cheung instructed The Submit. “This rubbish is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies which have been lengthy debunked.”


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