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PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-campaign-ordered-to-pay-ex-staffer-more-than-300-000-after-trying-to-enforce-an-unconstitutional-nondisclosure-agreement/ar-AAVgvgk#image=AAVgtst|2


Donald Trump's presidential campaign was ordered to pay more than $300k to a former staffer, per BuzzFeed News.
An arbitrator ruled that the campaign tried to enforce an "unconstitutional" nondisclosure agreement.
The former staffer's lawyer accused the Trump campaign of using these NDAs to "silence" critics.


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Former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign was ordered to pay more than $300,000 in legal fees and expenses to former staffer Alva Johnson, according to an order entered this month in a nonpublic arbitration case.


Johnson, who worked as a staffer in Alabama, will be awarded the fees and expenses after an arbitrator ruled that the campaign tried to enforce a legally unsound nondisclosure agreement (NDA), BuzzFeed News was first to report.

Alva Johnson, who filed a lawsuit against the Trump campaign in 2019, accused the former president of grabbing her and kissing her without her consent during a campaign stop in Tampa, Florida, in 2016.

A federal judge questioned her accusation after a video of the alleged incident appeared to show no inappropriate conduct.

In early September 2019, Johnson decided not to pursue the case, citing ongoing threats to her safety, family reasons, and the difficulty of pursuing justice against a person with "unlimited resources," CNN reported.

Donald J. Trump For President, Inc consequently filed an arbitration complaint on September 23, 2019, saying that Johnson had breached the confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions of an NDA during the legal battle.

The arbitrator, retired federal magistrate Judge Victor E Bianchini, dismissed the arbitration claim in November, calling the provisions of the NDA "vague and unenforceable," The New York Times reported.

Johnson's lawyers subsequently made a motion demanding that Trump's campaign cover her legal fees and other expenses, the newspaper said.

The March 10 order, which was made public this week, said that Trump's presidential campaign could not invoke the NDA because it had already been determined to be "unconstitutional" in the cases of Jessica Denson, Omarosa Manigault Newman, and Mary Trump.

Judge Bianchini ordered that the Trump campaign pay $303,285 to cover her legal bills. It must also cover other costs involved in the arbitration.

Johnson's lawyer Hassan Zavareei told Insider that the campaign uses "unenforceable" NDAs to "bully and silence" critics. "I think the whole idea behind the agreement is to shut people up," he said.

Referring to the money being awarded to Johnson by the former president's campaign organization, Zavareei said that "it's a shame that normal Americans are being forced to pay for Trump's abusive tactics."

Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington provided a statement to the media outlet calling the outcome "pathetic and totally contrary to the rule of law and any reasonable sense of fairness."

Trump's press office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment on Saturday morning.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

entitled pussy grabber and child rapist is going to be deposed...
hahahahahah

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/trump-rape-accuser-renews-push-to-depose-him-in-defamation-case/ar-AA123E8O?cvid=92436fbe026144c1f600b990b16267e5&ocid=winp2sv1plustaskbarhover


Trump Rape Accuser Renews Push to Depose Him in Defamation Case


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(Bloomberg) -- New York advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who in 2019 sued Donald Trump for defamation after he denied raping her two decades ago, intends to renew a previously abandoned bid to depose the former president.


In a letter dated Aug. 8 but filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, Carroll’s lawyer told US District Judge Lewis Kaplan she would push to depose Trump again because the former president wasn’t cooperating in pre-trial exchange of documents. Carroll had previously said she would rely mainly on documents to speed the case.

The previous decision not to take a deposition was based “on our expectation that document discovery” and written responses to questions would be enough to learn what Trump plans to argue in defense, Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan said, but “a deposition now appears to be the only way to do so.”

Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba said in a phone call on Tuesday that the former president is “happy and willing to sit for a deposition.”


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 2:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

pedophile, sexual predator p grabber is getting another sexual assault charge... hahahahaha

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/trump-s-legal-woes-deepen-as-woman-who-accused-him-of-rape-to-sue-for-sexual-battery/ar-AA123S4b?cvid=67f104993543474a8d1a2b927ed56a12&ocid=winp2sv1plustaskbar


Trump's Legal Woes Deepen As Woman Who Accused Him Of Rape To Sue For Sexual Battery


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Donald Trump’s legal troubles are likely to mount higher after journalist E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of rape, said through her attorney that she plans to sue the former president for sexual battery and infliction of emotional distress.

What Happened: Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said in a letter dated Aug. 8, to Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York that the journalist plans to file a lawsuit under the New York's Adult Survivors Act (ASA) when it goes into effect on Nov. 24.

The letter from Carroll’s Lawyers Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP was first noted on CBS News and was filed on Sept. 20

The lawyers said that the ASA provides a one-year “look back” period in which survivors of sexual misconduct can bring civil claims, which would otherwise be time-barred.


Why It Matters: Carroll will assert causes of action for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress, according to the letter.

The lawyer said since the allegations in the ASA complaint will be “nearly identical” to allegations contained in Carroll’s existing defamation lawsuit the two cases should be tried together beginning Feb. 6, 2023.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 3:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

trump says as president being accused of being a sexual molester and calling the person derogitory terms is part of the job.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-bid-to-dodge-suit-from-rape-accuser-heads-to-dc-court/ar-AA12iN9b?ocid=winp2sv1plustaskbarhover&cvid=c0c6e5b1f2a04f3293caaf39ad125c2e


Trump bid to dodge suit from rape accuser heads to DC court


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NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court in Washington D.C. has been asked to help decide whether Donald Trump was doing his job as president when he denied raping a woman and dismissed his accuser as “not my type.”


The columnist, E. Jean Carroll, sued Trump in 2019, claiming the Republican raped her in the mid-1990s inside a dressing room at a Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan, then lied about it and besmirched her character when she decided to tell her story publicly.

Since then, the case has gotten bogged down in a technical legal dispute over whether Trump should have to defend the lawsuit as a private citizen, or whether the U.S. government should step in as the defendant because Trump was performing his duties as president at the time he issued his denials.

Because the alleged attack happened so long ago, Carroll was originally barred for suing over sexual battery, so she sued for defamation, making the suit largely about disparaging comments Trump made about the rape allegation.

In a 2-to-1 decision Tuesday, a panel of judges on the New York based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asked The D.C. Court of Appeals, the highest court in the District of Columbia, to decide whether Trump’s public statements denying Carroll’s rape claims occurred within the scope of his employment.

If so, he would be entitled to immunity from the lawsuit, the 2nd Circuit judges ruled. But the United States could potentially be held liable for any defamatory statements Trump made as a federal employee.

The 2nd Circuit said courts have been inconsistent in previous rulings and that the D.C. Court of Appeals might be in the best position to answer the question.

Alina Habba, a lawyer for Trump, treated the 2nd Circuit ruling as a complete victory, saying it “will protect the ability of all future Presidents to effectively govern without hindrance.”


She added: “We are confident that the D.C. Court of Appeals will find that our client was acting within the scope of his employment when properly repudiating Ms. Carroll’s allegations.”

In a majority opinion written by Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi, two members of the 2nd Circuit's three-judge panel said they were not expressing any view on whether Trump’s public statements were defamatory or whether a sexual assault had occurred.

In a dissent, though, Circuit Judge Denny Chin said the other members of the panel were wrong in concluding Trump was an employee of the government according to a law known as the Westfall Act. He said the law was intended to protect low-level, rank-and-file government employees rather than the president.

And he said he would also conclude that at least some of the statements Trump made about Carroll were not made within the scope of his duties as president. He pointed in particular to Trump’s comment that Carroll was not his type.

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“In the context of an accusation of rape, the comment ‘she’s not my type’ surely is not something one would expect the President of the United States to say in the course of his duties,” Chin wrote. “Carroll’s allegations plausibly paint a picture of a man pursuing a personal vendetta against an accuser, not the United States’ ‘chief constitutional officer’ engaging in ‘supervisory and policy responsibilities of utmost discretion and sensitivity.’”

Chin also attacked the government’s position — which began when Trump was president and continued under the administration of President Joe Biden — that a president acts within the scope of his employment whenever he responds to the media and to public critics.

“If that were so, then the mere presence of others would neutralize whatever a President did or said, for no President could be held accountable for damage done in front of a microphone or in an official meeting -- whether defaming a citizen, exposing classified national security information, or inciting a riot. This is not, and should not be, the law,” Chin wrote.

Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, responded to a request for comment by citing Chin’s dissent, calling it a “powerful opinion.”

She added: “We are confident that the D.C. Court of Appeals, where this case is now headed on certification, will agree.”

There's a chance the legal fight over whether Trump or the U.S. government should be the defendant in the case could become moot.

Carroll's lawyer recently alerted a Manhattan federal court judge in August that she plans to file a new lawsuit against Trump in November when New York's Adult Survivor's Act take effect. That new law offers a one-year “look back” to enable adult survivors of sexual attacks to bring civil claims when they otherwise would be barred by time requirements.

That would mean Carroll could sue Trump over the original rape allegation, which happened long before he became president.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2022 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-rules-trump-must-sit-for-deposition-in-rape-accuser-s-lawsuit-next-week/ar-AA12SLkX?ocid=winp2sv1plustaskbarhover&cvid=6bff318399ca4caaa939fd9b213e56bc

Judge rules Trump must sit for deposition in rape accuser’s lawsuit next week


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Afederal judge has denied former President Trump’s motion to pause the proceedings of a defamation suit against him from a woman who has accused him of rape while appeals over the case play out, setting him up for a deposition next week.

Judge rules Trump must sit for deposition in rape accuser’s lawsuit next week
Judge rules Trump must sit for deposition in rape accuser’s lawsuit next week
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U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled on Wednesday that Trump’s argument did not meet the legal threshold required for a stay to be issued. Trump has been pushing for the United States to be substituted in E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against him because the comments Trump made denying her claim and criticizing her happened while he was president.

Carroll has accused Trump of raping her at a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. Trump has countered by accusing Carroll of lying and making remarks criticizing her appearance.

Trump requested that proceedings in the defamation case that Carroll filed in response be paused while the D.C. Court of Appeals weighs whether Trump was acting in his official capacity as president when he criticized Carroll, but Kaplan ruled that Trump has not demonstrated a likelihood to succeed on the merits of his argument.

Kaplan wrote in his ruling that the court could rule either way on the question, but Trump did not give a reason for him to conclude that the ruling will be in his favor.

He also found that Trump failed to show a meaningful threat of irreparable injury if a stay is not put in place.


Trump had argued that he should have immunity from the suit under the Westfall Act, which protects government employees from civil lawsuits if they are acting in their capacity as government officials. But the question as to whether Trump was acting in his capacity as president is unresolved.


Kaplan also found that a stay would cause irreparable injury to Carroll. He said Trump appears to be attempting to delay the case as much as possible, and 20 months have already passed from when Kaplan initially denied Trump’s motion to substitute the United States for him in the lawsuit.

“The defendant should not be permitted to run out the clock on the plaintiff’s attempt to gain a remedy for what allegedly was a serious wrong,” Kaplan said.

Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s attorney, said in a statement that they are pleased with the ruling against Trump’s requested stay. Roberta Kaplan said they also look forward to filing a lawsuit against Trump under New York’s Adult Survivors Act, a law that Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed in May to create a one-year window for those who experienced sexual assault to file civil lawsuits against abusers regardless of when the abuse happened.

That window will open in late November.

Alina Habba, an attorney for Trump, said in a statement that Carroll’s case is baseless.

“We look forward to establishing on the record that this case is, and always has been, entirely without merit,” she said.

Trump’s deposition is now set for next Wednesday.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-has-finished-being-grilled-at-mar-a-lago-in-e-jean-carroll-rape-defamation-case/ar-AA13a7mT?cvid=13e8a7a0b0f94960df24ebffa637c4ac&ocid=winp2sv1plustaskbarhover

Trump has finished being grilled at Mar-a-Lago in E. Jean Carroll rape defamation case


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Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is pictured in New York in 2020. Seth Wenig/AP
Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is pictured in New York in 2020. Seth Wenig/AP
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Donald Trump was questioned under oath Wednesday in writer E. Jean Carroll's 2019 defamation case.
The deposition was given at the former president's Mar-a-Lago resort and residence.
Trump may have pleaded the Fifth when asked about Carroll's claim that he'd raped her 30 years ago.
Donald Trump was deposed under oath on Wednesday in magazine writer E. Jean Carroll's 2019 rape defamation case, a spokesman for Carroll's lawyer said afterward.

Whether Trump cooperated or pleaded the Fifth as he was questioned at his Palm Beach, Florida resort and residence remained a mystery early Wednesday night. But he may well have, as the stakes in the case are about to rise.

As of now, Carroll is seeking damages for defamation only. She alleges in her lawsuit that when she accused Trump in her 2019 memoir of raping her in the mid-'90s, he called her a liar and implied she was too unattractive for him to have bothered with.

But Trump may well have asserted his right not to incriminate himself during Wednesday's deposition, given Carroll's promise — made through her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, last month — to additionally sue him for rape as soon as a New York law temporarily suspending the statute of limitations for sex assault lawsuits takes effect November 24.
Carroll has said Trump raped her in the fitting room of Bergdorf Goodman, a Manhattan department store in the mid-'90s, when she had a daily TV advice show and was a recurring guest on NBC's "Today" show.

She alleged Trump had chatted her up after recognizing her in the store, asked her for advice on shopping for lingerie, and then maneuvered her into a fitting room, where he overpowered her. She has said in court papers that she kept the dress she wore that day, and has sought Trump's DNA for confirmation.

Trump has denied Carroll's allegations, variously claiming over the last three years to have never met her — she has a photo of them together at a party — and that he would never have attacked her because she is "not my type."

"We're pleased that on behalf of our client, E. Jean Carroll, we were able to take Donald Trump's deposition today," said the spokesman, Zak Sawyer, in a statement on behalf of Carroll's attorneys at the Manhattan firm of Kaplan Hecker & Fink.

"We are not able to comment further."

Trump had reportedly been upbeat at his resort on Tuesday night, when instead of cramming for the deposition he hosted a lavish, $1,00o-a-plate fundraiser and teased guests that he could soon announce his 2024 run for the presidency.

Court papers have not revealed if Trump was ever forced to give up a DNA sample in the case. The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in federal court in Manhattan on February 6, 2023.




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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 11:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-attorneys-scramble-to-keep-his-testimony-private/ar-AA1694FL?cvid=340815e688c64807bdc2f11b20d3591c&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover

Trump's Attorneys Scramble to Keep His Testimony Private


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On Monday, the district judge presiding over the lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll ordered that key excerpts from Trump's testimony be unsealed, citing that the former president did not file any documents explaining why the deposition should be sealed or redacted within the deadline he previously set.

Carroll has alleged that Trump sexually assaulted her in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman, a New York department store, during the mid-1990s. This is the second lawsuit she has brought against him, with the first seeking to hold him accountable for battery in relation to the incident. Meanwhile, Trump has denied any wrongdoing.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-is-headed-to-court-tuesday-to-argue-that-presidents-can-t-be-sued-for-defamation-here-s-what-s-at-stake/ar-AA1697Uv?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=924745e23f3b49f889ff4bd22f476406

Trump is headed to court Tuesday to argue that presidents can't be sued for defamation. Here's what's at stake.


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An appeals court is set to weigh in on E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit against Donald Trump.
Trump and the DOJ argue that he can't be personally sued for statements he made in office.
Carroll's lawyers argue that the statements in question had nothing to do with his job.
A defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump will be heard by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals on Tuesday, and while the case stems from a rape allegation, what's at stake is whether presidents can be sued for comments they make in office.

The case concerns longtime Elle advice columnist E. Jean Carroll's rape allegation against Trump, and his subsequent denials.

In June 2019, Carroll wrote in an essay for New York Magazine that Trump forced himself on her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s.

Trump was president at the time Carroll went public with the rape claim, and he loudly denied her allegation in a series of statements to the press, in which he insulted her appearance and claimed she made the accusation up to sell her memoir. Trump went so far as to claim he never met Carroll, but that was quickly refuted with an image of the two chatting at a party in 1987.

Carroll sued Trump for defamation in November 2019, saying her career suffered "as a direct result of Trump's defamatory statements."

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 13, 2023 11:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/unsealed-e-jean-carroll-lawsuit-transcript-shows-trump-getting-tripped-up-on-the-very-first-question/ar-AA16keYE?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=123be3efec494539849ccaecd2ca376d

Unsealed E. Jean Carroll lawsuit transcript shows Trump getting tripped up on the very first question


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Ajudge on Friday unsealed a transcript of former President Donald Trump's deposition in the defamation lawsuit he's facing from E. Jean Carroll, and it shows him getting tripped up on the very first question.

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Florence, Arizona, on Jan. 15, 2022. - Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images North America/TNS
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Florence, Arizona, on Jan. 15, 2022. - Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images North America/TNS
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As flagged by Politico's Kyle Cheney, the transcript shows that an attorney representing Carroll asked Trump about a social media post he made in which he accused Carroll of getting "paid by a radical, left-leaning publisher to say bad an untrue things."

The attorney then asked if Trump could specify which publisher he was talking about.

"No," Trump replied. "I just heard it was a publisher that did some very bad books on us."

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"I'll represent to you that her publisher was Harper Collins," the attorney informed him.

Related video: Judge unseals Trump deposition in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit (MSNBC)

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"Yeah and they haven't been great," Trump shot back.

The attorney then informed Trump that Harper Collins published the book written by his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

"Could be, but they published some very bad ones too," Trump insisted.

Trump's last-ditch effort to get Carroll's lawsuit against him tossed out went down in flames on Friday after U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan accused the former president's legal team of making "absurd" arguments to try to invalidate the New York Adult Survivors Act that Carroll is using to press civil charges against him.

The trial for Trump in that lawsuit is set to begin in April.

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tooo funny he thinks his ex is Carroll...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-carroll-not-my-type-deposition-suggests-otherwise/ar-AA16uRdi?cvid=81db7afbaee64f1fbb14792315baabfc&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover

Trump Says Carroll ‘Not My Type’; Deposition Suggests Otherwise


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(Bloomberg) -- Former President Donald Trump mistook a 1980s photograph of New York author E. Jean Carroll, who claims he raped her more than two decades ago, for an image of his ex-wife Marla Maples during a deposition, according to a partially unsealed transcript in Carroll’s defamation suit.

E. Jean Carroll at her home in New York state. Carroll claims that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.
E. Jean Carroll at her home in New York state. Carroll claims that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.
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The slip-up during his Oct. 19 testimony could be used by Carroll at trial to undercut the claim by Trump, who denies the rape allegation, that she isn’t his “type.” The testimony was cited by her lawyer Roberta Kaplan in a redacted Jan. 12 filing made public on Wednesday.

Carroll, a former Elle magazine advice columnist, in 2019 went public with her claim that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. She sued Trump for defamation after he called her a liar from the White House. He doubled down in an Oct. 12 post on his Truth Social platform.

“It is a hoax and a lie just like all the other hoaxes that have been played on me for the past seven years, and while I’m not supposed to say it, I will. This woman is not my type!” Trump said in the post.

But during Trump’s deposition, Kaplan showed Trump the 1987 photograph of him with his then-wife Ivana Trump, chatting and smiling broadly with Carroll and her then-husband at a black-tie party. In the photo, Carroll is looking up at Trump and laughing.

Click here to read the Trump deposition transcript.

When asked by Kaplan when he’d first seen the photo, Trump at first said he didn’t “know the woman,” but then said, “It’s Marla,” according to the transcript.

“You’re saying Marla is in this photo?” Kaplan asked Trump.

“That’s Marla, yeah,” Trump said. “That’s my wife.”

Related video: Judge unseals Trump deposition in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit (MSNBC)

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Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, interjected to correct him. “No, that’s Carroll,” Habba said.

“Oh, I see,” Trump responded.

“The person you just pointed to was E. Jean Carroll,” Kaplan said, according to the transcript.

Trump married Maples six years after the photograph was taken. She gave birth to his daughter Tiffany Trump.

Habba didn’t immediately return a call Wednesday seeking comment.

The implied criticism of Carroll’s appearance is one of several remarks at the center of her 2019 defamation suit against Trump. Carroll also claims Trump defamed her by saying she fabricated the assault to sell a book and falsely claiming she made similar allegations against other men.

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During the deposition at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, the former president repeatedly emphasized that he was not attracted to Carroll. Asked why he felt he should phrase his denial in such terms, he defended his choice of words.

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“She’s accusing me of rape, a woman that I have no idea who she is,” Trump said. “It came out of the blue. She’s accusing me of rape — of raping her, the worst thing you can do, the worst charge.”

Kaplan then asked Trump if the point of saying Carroll is not his type is “to persuade people that you didn’t rape her because she wasn’t attractive enough; correct?”

“When I say she’s not my type, I say she is not a woman I would ever be attracted to,” Trump said. “There is no reason for me to be attracted to her. I just — it’s not even meant to be an insult.”

Maples, who was Trump’s second wife, isn’t involved in the matter. She married him at his Plaza Hotel property in Manhattan in 1993. They divorced in 1999. Trump married his current wife, Melania, in 2005, and they have one son, Barron.

Maples attended Ivana Trump’s funeral with her daughter Tiffany.

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