Former U.S. President Donald Trump disembarks his plane “Trump Force One” at Aberdeen Airport on May 1, 2023 in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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The deposition of former President Donald Trump by a lawyer for E. Jean Carroll, the writer who accuses him in a civil lawsuit of raping and defaming her, was released in a court filing Friday.
The deposition was filed a day after Carroll’s lawyers rested their case at the trial for the suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Portions of the transcript have previously been released in separate court filings, and jurors on Thursday were shown portions of video of that deposition. In one portion, Trump, who has repeatedly said that Carroll was not his “type,” misstook her for his former wife Marla Maples in a photo.
Carroll, 79, alleges that Trump raped her in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s after they had a chance encounter in the public area of that Manhattan store. She also alleges in her suit that Trump defamed her in comments last fall accusing her of making up the claim.
Trump denies raping Carroll. His lawyer Joseph Tacopina told Judge Lewis Kaplan that Trump would not testify in person at the trial.
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