A friend of Donald Trump Jr. is fighting a court battle to keep the son of the former president out of case documents – including transcriptions of offensive emails Trump Jr. allegedly sent, according to a report.
Gentry Beach, who attended the University of Pennsylvania with Trump Jr. in the 1990s and served as a groomsman at his wedding, has been suing his former employer Touradji Capital Management for nearly 15 years, but the emails only recently came to light during a retrial, reported the Wall Street Journal.
“Tomorrow night we’re having jews for dinner," Beach said in one email sent to Trump Jr. from Beach's account between 2005 and 2008. "That’s kosher, right?”
In another exchange, after Beach moved to upper Manhattan, Trump Jr. referred to the area as Harlem.
“I hear the theme song of the Jeffersons playing in the background,” he wrote.
Trump Jr. was identified as the sender when that email exchange was read in court, and in another exchange he complained about Mexicans coming to the U.S.
“Encourage the Mexicans to come to the US and give them another excuse to not learn English,” Trump Jr. wrote. “When I have to speak to my grandchildren in Spanish, at least I know I will have you to thank.”
Beach responded by saying he would send his son to the border with weapons.
“We’re going to stop this wetback issue dead in its tracks,” Beach wrote.
The hedge fund lawyers said Beach and Trump Jr. were among a group of Penn alumni on the group emails, which also included former Republican National Committee co-chair Tom Hicks Jr., who court records show made an antisemitic comment about a Jewish real-estate broker who sent pornographic images to one group of the email recipients.
“The only legitimate purpose for peppering the record with references to the public figure’s name is to prejudice the jury pool for the retrial and to increase risk of reputational harm to Plaintiffs, perhaps to generate settlement leverage,” said Beach's lawyers in a filing last month seeking to have Trump Jr.'s name redacted in court records involving the emails.
The hedge fund is using the emails as a new legal defense, arguing the messages showed Beach was disloyal to his employer and exposed the company to reputational harm because they could have been seen by financial regulators and potential clients.
“Many of these investors, such as pension funds and publicly traded corporations, are rigorously focused on the integrity of the investment professionals that manage their assets,” Touradji lawyers wrote in a January filing.
