Trump Lawyers Granted Deposition of Rape Accuser Amid Claims of Ties to Democrat Funding, Questionable Credibility

The Epoch Times ^ | 04/15/2023 | Gary Bai

[thegagline]

A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday allowed attorneys of former President Donald Trump to depose, for questions related to witness credibility, E. Jean Carroll, a writer who accused Trump of sexual assault and defamation.

U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, a Clinton appointee, ordered that Trump’s attorneys, Joseph Tacopina and Alina Habba, can question Carroll on an apparent inconsistency in her sworn testimony in pre-trial depositions about how she funded her defamation lawsuit against Trump.

It came after Trump’s attorneys learned days ago that—contrary to Carroll’s sworn statements in an Oct. 14, 2022, deposition that no one else is paying her legal fees—prominent Democrat donor, LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman is funding at least some of her legal fees.

This apparent inconsistency “might prove relevant to the question of plaintiffs credibility, in view of the deposition testimony” of Carroll, the judge wrote in his Thursday order.

The lawsuit dated to 2019, when Carroll accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s.

After the then-president denied her allegations in 2019, Carroll filed a defamation lawsuit against him in the same year, which bounced around state, federal, and appellate courts in New York and Washington, D.C.

Trump has denied all of Carroll’s allegations. ***

[thegagline]

Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
False in one, false in all

Federal Civil Jury Instruction 1.14

However, if you decide that a witness has deliberately testified untruthfully about something important, you may choose not to believe anything that witness said. On the other hand, if you think the witness testified untruthfully about some things but told the truth about others, you may accept the part you think is true and ignore the rest.

[dsrtsage]

Unless you are a member of the cartel, it is probably unwise to run for various political offices

[Candor7]

She was allegedly jumped in a public venue, a clothes changing room in a clothing store. She was raped and didn’t make a sound?

Then she lied about the political activist Trump Hater who is funding the law suit?

She is gong to be paying Trump A LOT of money.

[elpadre]

Does Trump’s daily calendar for that day have him in the same city????

[ridesthemiles]

IMO-—She is NOT credible from the first noise she utters.

[Robert DeLong]

On June 21, 2019, prior to the release of her book What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal (and during the Trump administration), E. Jean Carroll wrote in New York magazine that Donald Trump had sexually assaulted her in late 1995 or early 1996 in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York City. Her book contains details of the alleged incident. Carroll said that on her way out of the store she ran into Trump and he asked for help buying a gift for a woman. After she suggested a handbag or a hat, the two reputedly moved on to the lingerie section and joked about the other trying some on. Carroll said they ended up a dressing room together, the door of which was shut, and Trump forcefully kissed her, pulled down her tights and raped her before she was able to escape. She stated that the alleged incident lasted less than three minutes.

Yeah, that sounds totally contrived. If she was on her way out, why would she end up in a dressing room? She is either making it up, or she was a more willing participant than she is now claiming she wasn't.

[thegagline]

Here is her very long, quite insipid account of her sexual history involving “hideous men.”

Warning, the piece is like a Harlequin novel if it was written by a self involved, churlish dolt. https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/donald-trump-assault-e-jean-carroll-other-hideous-men.html

[Candor7]

I find her lack of credibility astounding.

Either Trump is the fastest bunny hopper in the world with a plenipotentiary instrument like a needle, or she is lying.

My bet is consensual sex without a follow on relationship.A consensual tryst which she cannot dismiss as a jilted woman.She expected more. And did not get what she had hoped for. So now she hates.

But then I am a romantic. The entire incident could be made up.

[jroehl]

Why cant somebody charge Biden for penetrating his former staffer?

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

College students keep in mind you can be sued years later if you become successful.

[sauropod]

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[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

And states like NY will pass retroactive laws to punish you.

[Libloather]

[Artemis Webb]

If Trump is tried in NYC by a jury, for ANYTHING, he will be convicted. True guilt or innocence isn’t a factor.

[xzins]

This is the standing up rape in a clothing stall while clothed in a store without sound and with no report for 40 years.

It’s just ridiculous that this was allowed to proceed. It shows what bunch of garbage the law is in manhattan.

[Texan5]

Ay, por favor-esta mierda otra vez?

This whole thing has the same odor as Christine Ford’s rape allegations against now-Justice Kavanaugh-like a fantasy that stinks on ice...

[HarleyLady27]

This whole thing has the same odor as Christine Ford’s rape allegations against now-Justice Kavanaugh-like a fantasy that stinks on ice...

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This whole sex thing says HILLARY CLINTON all over it, its the only thing she knows what to do, remember the RUSSIA, RUSSIA...all paid and bought by HILLARY CLINTON...when them two are gone, along with 14 others, we MIGHT get our country back...

[Ronald77]

Clinton too, both of them.

[Maris Crane]

She is gong to be paying Trump A LOT of money.

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OR, she is going to be paying Trump a LOT of the CEO’s money.

[ridesthemiles]

The first & Foremost RED FLAG for me is that SHE cannot remember the date.

Unless she has ‘been the target of rape” multiple times——SHE SURE AS HELL WOULD REMEMBER THE DATE.

OR AT LEAST A TIGHTER TIME FRAME.