PALM BEACH, Fla. – The video deposition of Donald Trump was released Friday in a lawsuit brought against him by E. Jean Carroll, who alleges that he raped her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in 1996. The store, she says, was Bergdorf Goodman, located not far from Trump Tower.
Trump appears in the deposition video being questioned by Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, taped at Mar-a-Lago in October 2022.
He has continued to deny the allegations and, during the video deposition, reiterates that Carroll “was not his type in any way.” Kaplan shows him a photograph of him speaking to a man and two women at an event around the same time.
Trump points out one of the women in the photo saying, “That’s Marla, yeah. That’s my wife” referring to his second wife Marla Maples, but his lawyer, Alina Habba, corrects him telling him the woman in the photo is Carroll. The other woman is his first wife, Ivana Trump.
Kaplan also queries Trump about the infamous “Access Hollywood” video in which Trump bragged about grabbing women’s genitals. He contended, as he has previously, that he was engaging in “locker room talk.”
Among other topics, including his use of the word “hoax” to describe Carroll’s lawsuit, he was asked by Kaplan about Jessica Leeds, who testified in Manhattan federal court on May 2 that Trump molested her on an airplane in the late 1970s.