Former President Donald Trump told a female lawyer unprompted that he would never be interested in her during a deposition.
The 48-minute video of the deposition was shown to jurors in court this week as part of E. Jean Carroll’s rape and defamation case.
Trump denied raping Carroll in the video and restated his allegation that she is not his “type.”
“I say this with as much respect as I can, she’s not my type,” Trump said. “Not my type in any way, shape, or form.”
Trump then told Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, who was questioning him, that she, too, was not his type.
“You would not be my choice of mine either, to be honest with you,” Trump said. “I hope you’re not insulted. I would not under any circumstances have any interest in you. I’m honest when I say it.”
Despite swearing that he would never be attracted to Carroll, the former president mistook her for his ex-wife Marla Maples throughout the deposition.
When shown a picture of him with Carroll at an event in 1987, he pointed to her and stated, “That’s Marla, yeah.” “That’s my wife.”
Carroll filed the photo in the lawsuit to verify she met Trump since the former president denies ever meeting her and has dubbed her a “liar” and “mentally sick.”
Carroll, a former Elle magazine contributor, said Trump raped her at the Bergdorf Goodman department store’s changing room in Manhattan in 1996.
