After years of hiding behind presidential immunity, Donald Trump will finally give a deposition in a defamation case brought by writer E Jean Carroll, who claims the former president raped her in a New York department store in the 1990s. The former president has denied the allegation.
The lawsuit was brought by Carroll after Trump repeatedly denied the allegations, saying that Carroll is “totally lying” and “not my type”.
A judge ruled last week that Trump could not avoid being deposed and ordered him to answer questions under oath.
Following the ruling, Trump repeated the behavior she is suing him for by throwing a fit on his struggling social media startup Truth Social.
Describing the case as “a complete con job”, Trump claimed he did not know E. Jean Carroll, a longtime Elle Magazine writer who accused him of rape at a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman department store.
“I don’t know this woman, have no idea who she is, other than it seems she got a picture of me many years ago, with her husband, shaking my hand on a reception line at a celebrity charity event,” Trump wrote.
“She completely made up a story that I met her at the doors of this crowded New York City Department Store and, within minutes, ‘swooned’ her. It is a Hoax and a lie, just like all the other Hoaxes that have been played on me for the past seven years,” Trump wrote.
Read Trump’s statement below:
Trump on E. Jean Carroll tonight. Ahead of his deposition. He has no defense, just bluster. pic.twitter.com/ig9vNcnN0P
— Anthony Davis (@theanthonydavis) October 13, 2022
