“Former President Donald Trump said he was just engaging in ‘fiery rhetoric’ when he said a former ‘Apprentice’ contestant was lying about being sexually assaulted by him more than a decade ago. Trump said the defamation lawsuit filed against him by Summer Zervos was doomed to fail because he was simply using hyperbole to deny her allegation. He made the argument in a filing on Wednesday in New York state court in Manhattan, where he’s seeking a judge’s approval to amend his response to her 2017 suit and file a counterclaim. Zervos said in a filing last week that Trump was trying to delay a court-ordered deposition, which must take place by Dec. 23, but the former president denied he was engaging in stall tactics. ‘This argument is patently absurd, disingenuous, and entirely unfounded,’ his lawyer, Alina Habba, said in the filing” – Bloomberg.