Former President Donald Trump wrongly identified E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who claims he raped her in a New York department store in the 1990s, as his ex-wife Marla Maples in an old photo that was shown during the deposition, the court transcripts were released. Wednesday. disclosed.
Trump has denied raping Carroll, previously saying she was “not my type” in his defense.
During his deposition in October, Trump said, “That’s Marla,” as he pointed to Carroll in a 1987 photo of her with her accuser, her husband and his then-wife, Ivana Trump.
“You mean Marla is in this picture?” Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s attorney, responded in an excerpt from testimony in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
“She’s Marla, yes. That’s my wife,” Trump replied.
“No, this is Carroll,” said the former president’s lawyer, Alina Habba.
“Oh, I understand,” Trump said, the Associated Press reported.
Trump didn’t marry Maples until 1993, about six years later.
In a previously released excerpt from her deposition, Trump hurled insults at Carroll, claiming she was “mentally ill” and “crazy” who was only using the accusation to promote “a really stupid book.”
Carroll is suing Trump for defamation, claiming his comments about her damaged her reputation. In a separate lawsuit, the writer is seeking rape damages from the former reality TV personality.
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