New York: Trump has questioned the case of a female journalist who accused former President Donald Trump of rape. Excerpts from Trump’s testimony released Friday by a court in a lawsuit filed by columnist E. Jean Carroll include derogatory words against the female reporter and threats to sue. Excerpts from Trump’s statement recorded in October in a lawsuit filed by Jean Carroll have been publicly released after a federal judge rejected a request by Trump’s lawyers to keep it sealed.
According to Trump’s statement, “The woman said that I did something to her that never happened. Nothing like this had happened. I don’t know anything about this woman.” These excerpts highlight a heated argument between Trump and one of Carroll’s lawyers. Portions of the statement were released the same day that federal judge Lewis A. Kaplan also denied a request by Trump’s lawyers to dismiss Carroll’s two lawsuits alleging rape and defamation. A hearing is expected in this regard in April.
Trump said he never met Carroll at a store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s. In his day-long testimony, Trump attacked Carroll for portraying him as a rapist. In 2019, a book by Carroll was published, in which she alleged that Trump had harassed her in the dressing room after they met at a Manhattan shop in late 1995 and early 1996.
