Former U.S. President Donald Trump described in a court appearance as a «nutcase» who is «not my type» the presenter and writer E Jean Carroll, who has denounced the tycoon for a rape allegedly perpetrated 30 years ago.
Trump claimed in a video testimony that the accusation is false and threatened to sue Carroll, who maintains that he assaulted her in a fitting room at the Bergdorf Goodman mall in New York. The transcript of Trump’s October deposition has now come to light after the end of legal privilege was declared.
The New York court has also called Trump’s double attempt to seek dismissal of Carroll’s rape and false testimony allegations «absurd.» The trial will be in April.
«She has said I did something to her that never happened. Nothing happened. I don’t know anything about this nut job,» Trump said, while criticizing the allegation as «an absolute scam» that he linked to the fact that Carroll «was promoting a crappy book» published in 2019 and in which she reveals the assault. «I’m going to sue her when this is over. That’s what I want,» he added.
Trump stated when the book was published that it’s not the «politically correct» thing to say that «she’s not my type.» «He accuses me of rape. I have no idea who he is (…). She accuses me of rape, the worst thing you can do, the worst accusation,» he said in 2019. «She is sick. She’s mentally ill,» he declared on CNN.
«She actually said she loved it, OK (…). I actually think she said it was sexy, right? She said it was sexy to have been raped. Didn’t she?» he added.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
