READ IT: Judge unseals portions of Trump deposition in E. Jean Carroll sexual assault case
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Excerpts of former President Donald Trump‘s deposition in a lawsuit alleging he committed sexual assault against author E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s have been unsealed.
Manhattan Federal Court Judge Lewis Kaplan spurned Trump’s application to toss out the case and repudiated his pleas to keep the deposition under seal as “entirely baseless.”
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Trump’s team argued against divulging his deposition. They contended that Carroll’s lawyers needed to make the case as to why unsealing the transcript was necessary.
The deposition shows Trump firmly standing by his denials of Carroll’s sexual assault allegations and clashing with the judge at times.
“I will sue her after this is over, and that’s the thing I really look forward to doing. And I’ll sue you too because this is — how many cases do you have? Many, many cases,” Trump mused. “I will be suing you also, but I’ll be suing her very strongly as soon as this case ends. But I’ll be suing you also.”
“Are you done?” Kaplan shot back.
The deposition of Trump was conducted on Oct. 19 and spanned five and a half hours at his Palm Beach residence.
Carroll has two different suits pending against Trump, including one filed in November under New York’s Adult Survivors Act. She also sued him for defamation in 2019. At the heart of both court wranglings are her accusations that he attempted to rape her in a dressing room in a Bergdorf Goodman department store about 27 years ago. She claims the encounter lasted three minutes and that she managed to escape.
Trump had adamantly denied the allegation, which she publicly disclosed just prior to releasing her book, What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal, in 2019. Then-President Trump countered that she was “not his type,” saying she was likely using the allegation to prop up book sales.
His legal team has also raised questions about the constitutionality of the Adult Survivors Act, a recently enacted law that permits adult victims to file suits against their abusers after a period of time — even if the statute of limitations expired. Trump’s lawyers have suggested that the law skirts constitutional due process protections.
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Carroll’s suit is seeking damages determined at trial and that Trump retract his denials, which she maintains were defamatory. Kaplan has allowed her suit to proceed, and Trump’s team has vowed to appeal.
Here is the 48-page document featuring excerpts of Trump’s deposition.
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