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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.
Thats Marla, yeah. Thats my wife, Trump said under examination from Carrolls lawyer Roberta Kaplan, in a new selection of excerpts from the deposition that was unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Trumps 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
(5,125 posts)All they need to do is let him speak for himself and he will destroy his own defense.
Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,750 posts)Hekate
(90,824 posts)C0RI0LANUS
(510 posts)William Gustafson
(299 posts)C0RI0LANUS
(510 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)Blue Owl
(50,506 posts)underpants
(182,883 posts)progressoid
(49,999 posts)Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)"Not my type. Case closed."
keithbvadu2
(36,917 posts)niyad
(113,576 posts)Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)niyad
(113,576 posts)PCIntern
(25,584 posts)Senile Motherfucker.
mercuryblues
(14,539 posts)rape is not pursuing someone romantically.
Abigail_Adams
(305 posts)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
(20,733 posts)Completely lose all legitimacy.
republianmushroom
(13,687 posts)area51
(11,921 posts)#DementiaDonnie