Donald Trump mistook rape accuser E Jean Carroll for ex-wife, trial told

Donald Trump appeared to mistake E Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples successful a deposition played for jurors successful Ms Carroll's civilian rape suit against him.

In the video, Mr Trump was shown a photograph of himself speaking to different radical astatine an event. "It's Marla," helium says, earlier his lawyer corrects him.

"No, that's Carroll," the lawyer says.

Ms Carroll, 79, has accused Mr Trump, 76, of attacking her successful a New York City section store successful the mid-1990s, an allegation Mr Trump has denied.

Lawyers for Ms Carroll person argued that Mr Trump's disorder implicit the photograph undermines his assertion that Ms Carroll is "not my type", a remark helium has repeated since she archetypal came guardant with the allegation successful 2019.

Mr Trump has not yet attended the civilian trial, present successful its 2nd week successful Manhattan.

He told reporters helium mightiness chopped his ongoing play travel to Ireland abbreviated to "confront" Ms Carroll successful court.

"I'll beryllium going backmost aboriginal due to the fact that a pistillate made a assertion that is wholly false, it's fake," Mr Trump said.

The nine-member assemblage was shown the video of a combative deposition betwixt the erstwhile president and Roberta Kaplan, 1 of Ms Carroll's lawyers, filmed past October.

Mr Trump continued his emphatic denials of Ms Carroll's accusation, that Mr Trump manoeuvred her into a dressing country astatine the Bergdorf Goodman store successful Manhattan and raped her.

"If it did happen, it would person been reported wrong minutes," Mr Trump said successful the deposition, suggesting that others astatine the "very engaged store" would person heard an ongoing attack.

Lawyers for Ms Carroll are expected to remainder their lawsuit aboriginal connected Thursday aft days of graphic testimony. Ms Carroll told jurors she was near "unable to ever person a romanticist beingness again" aft the alleged attack.

Her relationship was supported successful tribunal by her friend, Lisa Birnbach, who testified this week to receiving a telephone from Ms Carroll minutes aft she says she was raped.

And 2 different women - Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff - were called by Ms Carroll's squad and described alleged intersexual assaults committed by Mr Trump - claims helium has denied.

Mr Trump's proposition that helium would instrumentality to New York comes aft his lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, told the justice Mr Trump would not beryllium coming to attest and that nary witnesses would beryllium called successful his defence.

A erstwhile columnist for Elle magazine, Ms Carroll was capable to bring the civilian lawsuit against Mr Trump aft New York passed the Adult Survivors Act successful 2022.

The enactment allowed a one-year play for victims to record intersexual battle lawsuits successful the authorities implicit claims that would person usually exceeded statute limitations.