By Celia Ampel, From Daily Business Review

Miami attorney Elizabeth Beck outraged Donald Trump by asking for a break in a 2011 deposition to pump breast milk for her 3-month-old baby.
Beck is receiving national media attention for her interaction with the celebrity developer and now presidential candidate, who told the attorney she was “disgusting” and stalked out, prematurely ending the session.
“He was in my face, but he was backing away,” Beck told the Daily Business Review on Wednesday. “He was shaking. He was pointing at me, he was screaming, and then he bolted out of there.”
The exchange came to light Tuesday when the New York Times published excerpts from the deposition, which took place in Trump’s lawyer’s office in New York.
Trump had been speaking under oath for about two hours about the failed Trump International Hotel & Tower in Fort Lauderdale.
“The project failed, and the client got nothing, so they hired my firm to sue so that they could try to recover their deposits,” said Beck, who also has represented consumers in class-action suits against Unilever and two major airlines.
Beck of Beck & Lee traveled from Miami to New York for the deposition, part of a case filed in 2009 in the Southern District of Florida.
“I would be away from my baby,” she said. “I would have to pump to continue to provide her breast milk and to prevent pain, which can become excruciating and lead to an infection called mastitis.”
Lawyers for both parties agreed to take a lunch break during the deposition, Beck said. A transcript of the Nov. 16, 2011, deposition shows when she asked for the break, Trump said, “Why don’t we just finish it up and be done? I’d rather do that.”
“At that point, I had no choice but to let him know the reason for my break to create a record,” she said. “I told him that it was to breast-pump. When he realized the reason for my request, he became extremely upset. He yelled at me. He said, ‘You’re disgusting, you’re disgusting,’ and he ran out of there. And he did not return.”
The deposition was completed several days later in South Florida, Beck said.
Alan Garten, an attorney with the Trump Organization, was at the deposition and said he believed Beck asked for the break as a guise because she had run out of questions.
“Every accommodation had been made for her,” he said. “Per her request, breaks were taken between 3 and 4 p.m. We worked through lunch, except for the day when she was scheduled to depose Mr. Trump.”
Garten said he didn’t remember Trump’s exact response when Beck asked for the break, but he said Trump’s team “left because she had been acting unprofessional all day and was ill-prepared.”
Garten also objected to the attention being paid to the deposition now.
“Her version of the events is inaccurate, and it’s a complete distortion of the facts,” he said. “Her claims and the way that she has tried to manipulate the story is absurd, and I think she should be ashamed of herself for using this issue to self-promote and get her 15 minutes of fame.”
Trump won a Broward Circuit Court verdict in March 2014 against two of Beck’s clients who planned to buy condos in the tower.
The deposition was part of a federal case, Trilogy Properties et al. v. SB Hotel Associateset al., which was dismissed with prejudice in November.
Trump tweeted Wednesday that coverage of the case was incomplete.
“Beck lost the case, and I got legal fees,” he wrote. “Also, she wanted to breast-pump in front of me at dep.”
Beck acknowledged showing the bag containing the pump, which was in the room all morning, but emphasized she intended to leave the room to pump in private.
“I picked it up, and I said, ‘This is my breast pump,’ ” she said. “I need to breast-pump. That’s why I need the break.”
Beck said she has never seen behavior during a legal proceeding quite like Trump’s that day.
“This incident stands out in my memory as a very perplexing and strange event,” she said. “It stands alone.”
Florida law allows mothers to breast-feed a baby in any location, public or private. The law is silent on breast-pumping.
Other new mothers in the legal field have faced obstacles when returning to work. Miami-Dade Assistant Public Defender Marissa Altman said last month that Miami-Dade County Court Judge Fred Seraphin refused to let her take breaks to pump breast milk.
Beck said she didn’t provide the deposition to the New York Times but responded to the newspaper’s inquiry about it. She said she’s glad it’s being covered by the media now to help voters make informed decisions about the 2016 presidential election.
“I think that it brings into grave question his decision-making ability and his ability to stay graceful under pressure,” she said. “I think those two things are, at a minimum, required for the Oval Office.”
IMAGE: Donald Trump. Photo: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons
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Reuters Poll: Trump Leads Republican Presidential Race with 25 Percent
From Newsmax
Billionaire Donald Trump has taken a commanding lead in the race for the 2016 U.S. Republican presidential nomination with the support of 25 percent in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, giving him a double-digit advantage over nearest rival Jeb Bush.
The poll shows Bush, the former Florida governor, trailing at 12 percent.
It is a huge jump for Trump, who announced his candidacy for the November 2016 election six weeks ago – and this despite the criticism political rivals leveled at him for remarks this month belittling the military service of Senator John McCain, the party’s candidate in 2008.
The five-day rolling online poll had Trump at 15 percent among Republicans on Friday before he rocketed to 24.9 percent on Tuesday.

Trump, a 69-year-old real estate mogul and reality TV star, seems to be certain to take the stage at next week’s Fox News debate, which will use national polls to determine which 10 of the 17 Republican candidates in the field can participate.
Reuters/Ipsos polling also shows that should Trump mount an independent bid next year and run in a three-way race, he will likely drain support from the Republican nominee and allow the Democrat to cruise to victory.
Trump has refused to rule out an independent run should he fail to secure the Republican nomination.
In a matchup with Democratic Party front-runner Hillary Clinton and Bush, Trump would tie Bush at about 23 percent among likely voters, with Clinton winning the White House with 37 percent of the vote.
About 15 percent of those polled said they were undecided or would not vote.
The five-day rolling poll was based on a survey of 425 Republicans and has a credibility interval of plus or minus 5.5 percentage points. The three-way race poll, taken at the same time, used a sample of 1,280 Americans and has a credibility interval of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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