For 48 minutes, Trump appears in the video, wearing a blue tie, white shirt, and dark jacket, and he defended himself, sometimes in a harsh tone, while answering questions from the audience. attorney for the plaintiff, journalist E. Jane Carroll.
Trump was absent from the civil trial in New York in this case, but the jury saw, on Thursday, the previous testimony he gave in this video, in which he strongly denies the alleged facts.
“She is a liar and sick (…) I think she is sick and has a mental disorder,†confirmed the former president in the video recorded during his statement in October 2022.
Given his absence and the impossibility of questioning him, the plaintiff’s lawyers asked the journalist E. Gene Carroll to broadcast long video extracts during the hearing.
In this civil case, a jury of 9 citizens will decide whether the former president should pay damages to Jane Carroll, who since 2019 has accused him of having raped her in the spring of 1996 in the fitting room of a supermarket. New Yorker and then defamed her by claiming she was lying.
During his testimony, Trump reiterated that he didn’t know EJ Carroll, who was then a columnist for Elle magazine, and repeatedly stressed that she was “not his type.”
Then I showed him a photo taken at a social party he was at with Jane Carroll years before the alleged encounter in 1996.
Trump confirmed he had no recollection of the incident and believed Jane Carroll in the photo was his ex-wife, Marla, “That’s my wife…That’s Marla,” and immediately his lawyer told him. said, “It’s (EJane) Carroll.”
On Thursday, the jury was able to view a widely circulated video clip in which Trump said demeaning things to women in 2005.
In the video, Trump bragged about kissing and touching them as he pleased, saying, “When you’re a star, women let you. You can do anything with them.”
During his testimony, he said: “It’s really old news”, pointing out that it is “conversations that are discussed in the locker room” or “the way the general public speaks”.
According to US media, Trump has been accused in the past by more than 20 women of sexual assault or inappropriate behavior towards them. He denied the charges and was never prosecuted.
However, a new law that took effect in New York in November gives rape victims the right to sue even though decades have passed since the sexual assault.
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