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Dwhich Trump is not happy with The student.

In May, the former president served the unauthorized biopic with a cease and desist order, seeking to prevent it from being released in the United States.

In a statement to The independentTrump campaign chief spokesman Steven Cheung said: “We have filed a lawsuit to address the blatantly false claims made by these so-called filmmakers. This garbage is pure fiction that sensationalizes lies that have long been debunked.”

Nevertheless, Iranian director Ali Abbasi’s film has now secured an international release, hitting US cinemas on October 11 and arriving in Britain a week later.

The student Set during the early years of Trump’s business career, it stars Sebastian Stan as the budding real estate mogul Succession‘s Jeremy Strong as his mentor, the lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.

The film’s producers have described it as “inspired” by real events, despite the Trump campaign’s claim that it is “pure fiction.” So, how much of the story is really true?

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Was Donald Trump mentored by Roy Cohn?

Roy Cohn was a lawyer born and raised in the Bronx who rose to prominence in the 1950s for his role as Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief adviser during his investigations into suspected communists. By the time Trump met him in 1973, Cohn was one of New York’s top political power brokers, and the young mogul was eager to learn everything he could from him.

In 2019, Where’s my Roy Cohn documentary director Matthew Tyrnauer told NPR: “Donald Trump is Roy Cohn. He fully absorbed all of Cohn’s lessons: attack, always double down, blame your accusers for what you’re guilty of, and winning is everything. And Trump has absorbed these lessons and applied them to every aspect of his life and career.”

Did Donald Trump rape his first wife Ivana?

One of the most controversial sequences in The student shows how Trump met his first wife Ivana (played by Borat subsequent movie film‘s Maria Bakalova).

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In the scene, Ivana hands her husband a book about the female orgasm. The couple argue, with Trump telling his wife that he is no longer attracted to her. He then throws her to the ground, pushes himself against her and grins: “Is that your G-spot? Did I find it?”

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Ivana Trump, who died in 2022, accused her then-husband of raping her in a 1989 divorce decree.

However, when that claim was published in Harry Hurt III’s 1993 book The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. TrumpIvana rejected the claim and said, “During a statement I made in connection with my matrimonial case, I stated that my husband raped me. Once in 1989, Mr. Trump and I had a marital relationship in which he behaved toward me very differently than he had during our marriage. As a woman, I felt violated because the love and tenderness he normally showed towards me were absent. I called this a ‘rape,’ but I don’t want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.”

Has Donald Trump Used Amphetamines?

In The studentTrump is depicted as popping amphetamine pills. The former president has admitted to partying at lavish nightclubs like New York’s Studio 54 in the 1970s, but has consistently maintained that he personally does not do drugs or even drink. He has attributed his tee totalism to the death of his older alcoholic brother Fred Jr., who died in 1981 at the age of 43. During a 2018 press conference, Trump said: “I’m not a drinker. I can honestly say I have never had a beer in my life…. If they’re looking for something good, I tell them I’ve never had a glass of alcohol.”

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Earlier this year, Trump questioned podcast host Theo Von about the effects of cocaine and said, “Isn’t that gross?” and the question of whether the drug is ‘stronger’ and ‘too much to handle’?

Did Donald Trump undergo scalp reduction surgery?

Some critics have argued that the scenes in The student what will make Trump “angriest” are the images showing him undergoing liposuction and scalp reduction surgery to reduce his bald spot. Like the sexual abuse allegation, the source for this story is the divorce decree of his first wife Ivana. In 1990, she said under oath that Trump had thrown a fit of rage after undergoing the painful operation in 1989. The surgery, also known as alopecia reduction, aims to address baldness by cutting away the bald spot and sewing the remaining skin back together. around it.

The procedure is known to lead to headaches due to the tightness of the scalp. It was reportedly performed by Ivana’s own doctor, Dr. Steven Hoefflin, who also put Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Rivers under the knife. Ivana also claimed that Trump had liposuction on his chin and waist.

The Apprentice hits theaters in the US on October 11 and in the UK on October 18