Trump called Carroll, who has accused him of sexual assault, a „nut case“ and claimed that she said it was „very sexy to be raped.“
Former President Donald Trump repeatedly lobbed insults at columnist E. Jean Carroll while being deposed as part of her defamation lawsuit last year.
Carroll, who alleges that Trump raped her in a New York City department store during the 1990s, sued the former president for defamation after he called her a „liar“ for accusing him of rape. New York District Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered Trump to answer questions under oath in October.
On Friday, Kaplan denied a last-minute request by Trump’s lawyers to keep his testimony sealed. A partial transcript from the deposition, which was taken at Trump’s residence in Florida within weeks of Kaplan’s order, was released later in the day.
While being questioned by Carroll attorney Roberta Kaplan, who is not related to the judge, Trump doubled down on a statement concerning the case, which he had shared to Truth Social shortly after the judge refused to delay his deposition in October.
Trump said that the rape allegation was a „hoax and a lie“ in the statement, while claiming that he did not know Carroll and asserting that she was not his „type.
