Posted on 01/14/2023 4:03:25 AM PST by fluorescence
Former President Donald Trump denied a writer’s rape claim and called her a “whack job” -- among other insults -- during an October deposition taken as part of a defamation lawsuit, according to a transcript made public on Friday.
“The woman, there’s something wrong with her in my opinion, okay. But it’s a false accusation. Never happened, never would happen,” Trump said of an allegation made by former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll.
A federal judge in New York earlier Friday ordered unsealed portions of the transcript of the deposition that took place on Oct. 19 at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago golf club. The ruling came over the objection of Trump’s attorneys who sought to keep the transcript sealed.
“And I posted and I will continue to post until such time as -- and then I will sue her after this is over, and that's the thing I really look forward to doing,” Trump said according to the transcript. “I think she's a whack job.”
Trump denied knowing Carroll but said “I think she’s sick, mentally sick” and when he said Carroll was not his type Trump said he did not mean it as an insult.
“There's no way I would ever be attracted to her. Now, some people would be attracted to her perhaps. I would never be attracted to her,” Trump said.
Kaplan asked Trump whether he had ever pressured a woman to engage in sex with him. Trump responded “The answer is no. But you may have some people like your client who are willing to lie.”
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D’oh. The correct title is “Trump calls E. Jean Carroll ‘whack job’ in newly released deposition transcript”
It's losers and psychopaths who rape women and DJT and never has been either of those things.
However,if I was advising DJT I would have advised him to substitute "sadly delusional" for "whack job"...despite the fact that she *is* a whack job.
Call it what it is, don’t put a happy face on it. Anything short of that, goes nowhere.
This woman has shopped this nonsense far too long. She obviously has no proof at all and many years have passed since this so called called alleged incident happened.
An end needs to be put to this and this woman needs to quit making a joke out of the law.
What justification did the judge give to release portions (probably selective) of the transcript ? Oh I forgot,the justification must have been because it is Trump.
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