Trump denied E. Jean Carroll rape declare in testimony

Editor’s be aware: This story features a description of sexual assault.

A federal choose in New York on Friday rejected an effort by attorneys for former President Donald Trump to maintain sealed a portion of the transcript of his deposition in a lawsuit by a author who accuses him of raping her within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.

Trump’s arguments for maintaining sealed the almost three dozen pages of his Oct. 19 deposition “are solely baseless,” Decide Lewis Kaplan wrote in his order in U.S. District Courtroom in Manhattan.

That deposition confirmed Trump making repeated insulting feedback in regards to the author who’s suing him, E. Jean Carroll, her lawyer, and President Joe Biden, in addition to grousing about what he referred to as a sequence of “hoaxes” involving allegedly false claims made about him.

Trump, who denies raping Carroll or ever having intercourse together with her in any respect falsely mentioned that Carroll, in an interview about her declare of being raped by him, had indicated that “she cherished it.”

“She mentioned it was very horny to be raped,” Trump testified, misstating what Carroll had really mentioned.

Trump has been accused by a number of ladies of sexual misconduct — he denies every declare — and bragged in a 2005 recording of the present “Entry Hollywood” about grabbing ladies’s genitals and kissing them with out their consent.

Throughout questioning by Carroll’s attorneys, Trump denied ever kissing a girl with out her consent.

“I am unable to consider any complaints. However no, I imply, I do not assume so,” he mentioned.

Requested whether or not he had ever touched a girl on her breast, buttocks or some other sexual half with out her consent, Trump answered, “Properly, I’ll let you know not, however you might have some folks like your shopper that lie.”

The deposition was carried out at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership in Palm Seaside, Florida, in reference to the primary defamation lawsuit that Carroll filed towards him in 2019.

Trump’s testimony beneath oath, was given per week after he issued a social media submit that was cited in a second defamation lawsuit Carroll filed towards him in November.

Earlier Friday, Kaplan denied Trump’s bid to toss out the latest of two lawsuits filed by Carroll, who says Trump raped her in a dressing room within the Bergdorf Goodman division retailer in Manhattan greater than 20 years in the past.

In his unsealing order, Kaplan mentioned that Trump had no proper to confidentiality for his testimony when he gave it. The choose famous that there’s a presumptive proper held by the general public to court docket paperwork.

The choose added that opposite to Trump’s argument, the portion of his transcript that was redacted within the public submitting by Carroll’s attorneys “was straight related” to a disagreement between the events over whether or not extra discovery needs to be carried out for her second lawsuit.

Discovery is the authorized course of through which events in a lawsuit alternate proof and take testimony from witnesses in preparation for trial, or a settlement.

Kaplan first ordered the deposition transcript unsealed on Monday. However he then reversed his order after Trump’s attorneys requested him for 3 days to file arguments opposing the unsealing.

Trump, whereas serving as president, publicly accused Carroll of constructing up the rape allegation, saying she was motivated by politics and a need to promote a e book containing her claims.

Carroll then sued him for defamation.

She sued him once more in November when he made what she says had been different defamatory statements about her in a social media submit that Trump wrote in October.

Her second lawsuit additionally alleges battery, a declare that was allowed beneath a brand new New York state legislation that enables adults a one-year grace interval to file lawsuits alleging sexual abuse that occurred exterior of the time-frame usually allowed by the statute of limitations.

Trial within the instances has been set for April.

Trump in his testimony flatly and repeatedly denied Carroll’s declare that he raped her.

“It is a false accusation,” Trump mentioned. “By no means occurred, by no means would occur.”

“I’ll sue her after that is over, and that is the factor I actually look ahead to doing,” Trump informed Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, who is just not associated to the choose.

“And I will sue you too,” he added towards Kaplan.

Through the deposition, Trump fumed about Kaplan, who along with representing Carroll represents his niece, Mary Trump, in a lawsuit alleging that the previous president and his siblings swindled Mary out of a share of the household’s wealth.

“What number of instances do you will have?” Trump requested Kaplan. “Many, many instances, and I do know the statements … that you simply made. Hold Trump busy as a result of that is the best way you defeat him, to maintain him busy with litigation.”

Trump throughout the deposition was requested in regards to the Oct. 12 submit he made on his social media website, which refers back to the “Ms. Bergdorf Goodman case,” calling it “an entire con job.”

The submit referenced a June 2019 interview Carroll gave CNN’s Anderson Cooper that described her account of the alleged sexual assault. She mentioned it occurred after an opportunity assembly with Trump whereas she was buying, and he allegedly requested her for assist shopping for a gift “for a woman.”

“She fully made up a narrative that I met her on the doorways of this crowded New York Metropolis division retailer and inside minutes ‘swooned’ her,” Trump had written, Kaplan famous in her questioning.

Trump in his deposition confirmed Kaplan had learn that, and the remainder of the submit precisely, saying, “Nice assertion, yeah. True. True.”

“I wrote all of it myself,” he added.

Requested if he had talked to anybody about what to say in his submit, Trump replied, “No, I did not have to. I am not Joe Biden.”

Trump referred to as Carroll a “wack job” throughout his deposition.

“I believe she’s sick, mentally sick,” he mentioned.

Kaplan then requested him about his use of the phrase “swooned,” which she referred to as “a wierd phrase.”

“What does ‘swooned her’ imply?” the lawyer requested.

Trump replied, “That may be a phrase, perhaps correct or not, having to do with speaking to her and speaking her — to do an act that she mentioned occurred, which did not occur.”

“And it is a nicer phrase than the phrase that begins with an F, and this may be a phrase that I used as a result of I believed it will be inappropriate to make use of the opposite phrase,” Trump mentioned. “And it did not occur.”

When Kaplan mentioned that the dictionary outlined “swooned” as “to faint with excessive emotion,” Trump replied, “Properly, kind of that is what she mentioned I did to her.”

“She fainted with nice emotion,” Trump mentioned. “She really indicated that she cherished it. OK?,” he mentioned, referring to Carroll’s CNN interview.

“She cherished it till industrial break,” Trump mentioned. “The truth is, I believe she mentioned it was horny, did not she? She mentioned it was very horny to be raped. Did not she say that?”

Kaplan then requested if Trump was testifying that Carroll “mentioned that she cherished being sexually assaulted by you.”

Trump answered: “Properly, based mostly on her interview with Anderson Cooper, I consider that is what happened. And we will outline that. You may have to point out that. I am positive you are going to present that. However she was interviewed by Anderson Cooper, and I believe she mentioned that rape was horny — which it is not, by the best way.”

He added, “However I believe she mentioned that rape was horny.”

The truth is, Carroll had mentioned in that interview that she believed “most individuals” considered rape as “horny.” She didn’t say she believed that herself.

In that interview, Carroll mentioned she was “panicked” when Trump shut the door of the dressing room and pushed her towards a wall and commenced kissing her earlier than flattening her tights.

“And it was towards my will. And it damage. And it was a struggle,” Carroll mentioned within the interview.

She later mentioned in the identical interview, “I used to be not thrown on the bottom and ravished. Which the phrase ‘rape’ carries so many sexual connotations.”

“This was not — this was not sexual. It simply damage,” Carroll mentioned.

Cooper responded, “I believe most individuals consider rape as … a violent assault.”

Carroll then mentioned, “I believe most individuals consider rape as being horny … they consider the fantasies.”

When her lawyer Kaplan requested Trump if it was not true that Carroll had mentioned it was a view of many different folks about rape being horny, he mentioned, “Oh, I do not know … All I do know is, I consider she mentioned rape is horny or one thing to that impact, however you will have to look at the interview. It has been some time.”

Trump later within the deposition famous that in his social media submit he made what he referred to as the “not politically right assertion” about Carroll.

“She’s not my sort,” Trump informed Kaplan. “She is just not a girl I’d ever be drawn to,” he added later.

“She’s accusing me of rape, a girl I don’t know who she is,” Trump mentioned. “The worst factor you are able to do, the worst cost.”

“And you realize it is not true too,” he informed Kaplan. “You are a political operative too. You are a shame.”

He later advised that Kaplan had some sort of affect with the choose within the case to get him to grant her permission to depose him for the lawsuit. It’s customary in lawsuits for attorneys to depose the events in a case.

“I knew that we would be losing a day doing this, a complete day doing this,” Trump mentioned. “You have to be linked to get this type of time. However a complete day of doing these items on one thing that by no means occurred.”

Kaplan famous that Trump had mentioned in his social media submit that Carroll’s allegation was “a hoax and a lie, identical to all the opposite hoaxes which have been performed on me for the previous seven years.”

When the lawyer requested if he meant Carroll had fabricated her declare, Trump mentioned, “Completely, 100%.” He admitted that he used the time period “hoax” so much.

“I’ve had numerous hoaxes performed on me. That is one in every of them,” Trump mentioned.

Requested what a few of these had been, Trump mentioned, “The Russia Russia Russia hoax … Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine hoax.”

He pointed to particular counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into potential connections between the 2016 Trump marketing campaign and Russia.

Trump additionally mentioned using mail ballots throughout the 2020 election, which he misplaced to Biden, was a hoax.

“I believe they’re very dishonest. Mail-in ballots, very dishonest,” Trump mentioned.

Requested by Kaplan if he had himself voted by mail, Trump answered over the objections of his personal lawyer, Alina Habba.

“I do. I do,” Trump mentioned. “Generally I do. However I do not know what occurs to it when you give it. I don’t know.”