Former U.S. President, Donald Trump’s civil rape trial continued on Thursday with the presentation of a video deposition where Trump mistook a photograph of his accuser, E. Jean Carroll, for his ex-wife, Marla Maples.
Carroll, a former advice columnist at Elle magazine, has accused Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room in Manhattan during the mid-1990s, which Trump has vehemently denied.
She said during three days of testimony and cross-examination that Trump slammed her against the wall in either 1995 or 1996, put his fingers into her vagina, and then inserted his penis.
The trial has attracted a lot of attention due to the nature of the allegations, and Trump’s possible involvement in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
During the deposition, Trump denied the allegations and called Carroll “mentally sick,” while his lawyers argued that the photo mix-up undermines Carroll’s claim that she was Trump’s type.
Trump will not testify in the trial but has stated that he might attend. The trial is expected to continue into next week.
Despite being warned by U.S. District Judge, Lewis Kaplan, about discussing the case publicly, Trump dismissed the allegations during a golf outing at a resort he owns in southwestern Ireland, claiming the allegations were untrue and made by “a woman that made a false accusation about me.”
