Donald Trump Confuses Rape Accuser E. Jean Carroll for Ex-Wife Marla Maples in Photo
06.05.2023 - 00:03
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Donald Trump‘s ongoing sexual assault trial Thursday of the former president mistaking a photo of accuser E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife, Marla Maples.During an October deposition, Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, handed Trump a photo and asked him to identify who was in it. The late-1980s photo featured Trump, his wife at the time Ivana Trump, Carroll and Carroll’s ex-husband John Johnson.
In the video, Trump is able to identify Johnson, but he trips up when it comes to Carroll. “I don’t even know the woman. Let’s see.
I don’t know who — it’s Marla,” Trump said, referring to his wife from 1993-1999.Once Kaplan clarified that Trump thought he was looking at a photo of his former wife, Trump doubled down. “That’s Marla, yeah. That’s my wife,” Trump said.
The attorney then asked Trump to show her who he was pointing to. The woman Trump repeatedly called Maples was E. Jean Carroll.“I don’t know.
This was the picture. I assume this was John Johnson. Is that Carroll? Because it’s very blurry,” Trump said, backtracking.In 2019, Carroll accused Trump and former CBS CEO Les Moonves of sexual assault in her book, “What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal.” Trump later said that Carroll had “made up” the allegations that he raped her in a New York department store.
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