Trump thought photo of accuser was of ex-wife during deposition

[RandySF]

NEW YORK — Donald Trump mistook his sexual assault accuser E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples when shown a photograph from the 1990s in a deposition at Mar-a-Lago last year, potentially undermining one of the common defenses he has used to deny an attack.

Trump, who is being sued by Carroll, an author and advice columnist, for defamation and sexual assault stemming from the same alleged encounter, has repeatedly said Carroll is not his “type,” suggesting an assault could not have occurred because he would not have pursued her romantically.

“That’s Marla, yeah. That’s my wife,” Trump said under examination from Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan, in a new selection of excerpts from the deposition that was unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

Trump’s blunder in a sworn deposition was quickly corrected by his attorney Alina Habba, who told him it was Carroll, not Maples, an actress and singer who was married to Trump from 1993 to 1999.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/01/18/trump-deposition-carroll-photo/

[TigressDem]

1. Wow.

All they need to do is let him speak for himself and he will destroy his own defense.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

2. Classic.

[UTUSN]

3. Hah!

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. Senility setting in?

[Hekate]

11. More like, much too vain to ever wear glasses

[C0RI0LANUS]

5. "That's Marla, yeah. That's my wife...."

[William Gustafson]

14. MAGOO Make America Great Over & Over... new slogan for Cheetoilini...

[C0RI0LANUS]

16. Good shot!!

[Me.]

6. Yet he said, E. Jean wasn't his type.

[Blue Owl]

8. Time for some cross examination!

[underpants]

7. Perfect.

[progressoid]

9. And Marla isn't even his wife anymore. It's Malaria

[Just A Box Of Rain]

10. Trump: "Why do you think I divorced Marla?"

"Not my type. Case closed."

[keithbvadu2]

12. "Person. Woman. Man Camera. TV,"

[niyad]

13. "So exactly what is the type of woman you WOULD rape?"

[Just A Box Of Rain]

15. "If she wasn't my daughter?"

[niyad]

17. Considering him and his older daughter. . .

[PCIntern]

18. There is no resemblance between them

Senile Motherfucker.

[mercuryblues]

19. Once again.

rape is not pursuing someone romantically.

[Abigail_Adams]

24. Exactly!!

I picked up on that, too. It's a crime of rage-and-need-for-dominance-meets-opportunity. Just ask the toddlers, the mentally disabled, the comatose, the nuns in their eighties, and other rape victims.

[lindysalsagal]

20. The prosecution can keep setting the senile old fool up for more of these

Completely lose all legitimacy.

[republianmushroom]

21. well she did have hooters.

[area51]

22. Perhaps it's evidence of dementia.

#DementiaDonnie

[BWdem4life]

23. As if "not my type" were a real, actual usable defense. nt