The writer’s lawyers had a chance to question the ex-US president under oath about allegations that he assaulted Carroll in the mid-1990s.
« : »Former US president Donald Trump answered questions under oath on Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, a magazine columnist who says the Republican raped her in the mid-1990s in a department store dressing room. The deposition gave Carroll’s lawyers a chance to interrogate Trump about the assault allegations as well as statements he made in 2019 when she told her story publicly for the first time. Details on how the deposition went were not immediately disclosed. “We’re pleased that on behalf of our client, E. Jean Carroll, we were able to take Donald Trump’s deposition today. We are not able to comment further,” said a spokesperson for the law firm representing her, Kaplan Hecker & Fink. Trump rape accuser seeks his DNA for dress test Trump has said Carroll’s rape allegation is “a hoax and a lie”. His legal team worked for years to delay his deposition in the lawsuit, which was filed when he was still president.
