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Donald Trump mistook E Jean Carroll, the writer who accuses him of rape, for his ex-wife Marla Maples during a deposition successful the lawsuit past year, excerpts released successful US territory tribunal connected Wednesday showed.
“That’s Marla, yeah,” Trump said, erstwhile shown a photograph. “That’s my wife.”
The mistake was corrected by a lawyer for the 76-year-old erstwhile president. But observers said it could undermine Trump’s assertion helium could not person attacked Carroll due to the fact that she is not his “type”.
It was not the archetypal merchandise of excerpts from Trump’s deposition, which happened successful October. Last week, Trump was shown to person claimed Carroll “said it was precise sexy to beryllium raped”.
Carroll says Trump raped her successful a section store changing country successful the mid-1990s. Trump denies it.
Carroll sued Trump for defamation and under the Adult Survivors Act, a New York instrumentality which allows alleged victims of humanities intersexual battle to bring cases wrong a defined timeframe.
Trump was joined to Maples, the parent of his girl Tiffany, from 1993 to 1999, betwixt marriages to Ivana Trump, his archetypal wife, and Melania Trump, his 3rd and existent spouse.
The photograph helium thought showed Maples shows Trump successful Carroll’s institution successful the 1990s. In his deposition, Trump said it showed a “receiving line” astatine an event.
In the extracts released past week, Trump said of Carroll: “She said that I did thing to her that ne'er took place. There was nary anything. I cognize thing astir this nutjob.”
He besides accused Carroll of alleging helium raped her successful bid to beforehand “a truly crummy book”.
To Carroll’s lawyer, helium said: “I volition writer her aft this is over, and that’s the happening I truly look guardant to doing. And I’ll writer you, too.”
Trump besides called Carroll “mentally sick” and falsely claimed she had talked astir enjoying intersexual assault.
“She really indicated that she loved it,” helium said. “OK? She loved it until commercialized break. In fact, I deliberation she said it was sexy, didn’t she? She said it was precise sexy to beryllium raped. Didn’t she accidental that?”
Trump was referring to an interrogation with CNN successful 2019 successful which Carroll described wherefore she preferred not to usage the connection “rape”, arsenic immoderate radical deliberation “rape is sexy”.
In Trump’s deposition, Carroll’s lawyer asked: “It’s your grounds that E Jean Carroll said that she loved being sexually assaulted by you?”
Trump said: “Well, based connected her interrogation with Anderson Cooper, I judge that’s what took place. And we tin specify that … I deliberation she said that rape was sexy – which it’s not, by the way.”
In her CNN interview, Carroll said: “I didn’t deliberation of it arsenic rape. I thought of it arsenic a convulsive incident. I thought of it arsenic a fight. And I’ll archer you however anserine … I thought I won due to the fact that I got out.”
Trump is the lone declared campaigner for the Republican statesmanlike information successful 2024. A canvass released connected Wednesday gave him a 17-point lead implicit his nearest notional challenger, the politician of Florida, Ron DeSantis.
A proceedings concerning Carroll’s rape assertion is due to statesman successful April.
Information and enactment for anyone affected by rape oregon intersexual maltreatment issues is disposable from the pursuing organisations. In the US, Rainn offers enactment connected 800-656-4673. In the UK, Rape Crisis offers enactment connected 0808 802 9999. In Australia, enactment is disposable astatine 1800Respect (1800 737 732). Other planetary helplines tin beryllium recovered astatine ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html
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