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Former President Donald Trump insulted and angrily threatened to sue columnist E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of raping her at a department store in the 1990s
A lying mental patient who went so far as to say that she enjoyed being raped. These are some of the statements made by Donald Trump during testimony on the allegations against him by E. Jean Carroll, the woman who alleges that he raped her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. The New York federal court judge allowed the complaint and scheduled the first hearing for April
The passages revealed yesterday are part of a five-and-a-half hour interrogation in October that is part of a lawsuit filed by the columnist. The statements were released after a federal judge denied a request by Trump’s attorneys to keep them secret. “She said I did something to her that never happened. Nothing happened. I don’t know anything about this crazy woman,” he said, according to the transcript. The excerpts reveal a contentious fight between Trump and Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan, who questioned him when Trump called the longtime former Elle columnist the author of a “complete scam” in which she described the rape while “he was promoting a really bad book.” “.
In the statement, Trump reiterated that he didn’t know Carroll and accused her of fabricating the story of the rape. “I don’t know her. I think she’s sick, mentally ill,” the former president said, going so far as to say that Carroll said in an interview with CNN that she liked being sexually assaulted. When he said to When questioned about the lawsuit, the former president angrily hurled insults and threatened to sue the columnist, “I’ll sue you when this is all over, I can’t wait.”Trump said she knew it wasn’t politically correct to say “she’s not my type” when responding to the claims shortly after the release of Carroll’s 2019 book. The author claimed she was attacked by Trump in a dressing room after they met by chance at the store and she agreed to help him choose lingerie for a friend. During the testimony, Trump emphasized that she enjoys being raped in an interview. “Actually, I think he said it was sexy, right? She said it was very sexy to be raped. Didn’t he say that?”
January 14, 2023 (change January 14, 2023 | 08:55)
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