Former President Trump testified under oath Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, a magazine columnist who claims he assaulted her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
Carroll’s attorneys used the deposition to question Trump on the assault claims as well as remarks he made in 2019 when she recounted her tale publicly for the first time.
The deposition’s outcome was not immediately announced.
“We are thrilled that we were able to take Donald Trump’s deposition today on behalf of our client, E. Jean Carroll. We are unable to make any more comments “Kaplan Hecker & Fink, the law company representing her, stated in a statement.
According to Carroll’s account, she bumped into Trump as the two were shopping at the Bergdorf Goodman store across Fifth Avenue from Trump Tower. At the time, Carroll was on television as the host of an advice program, “Ask E. Jean.”
She said the two engaged in friendly banter as she tried to help him pick out a gift. But when they were briefly alone in a dressing room, she said he pulled down her tights and raped her.
In a recent statement, Trump called that story “a complete con job.”
“I don’t know this woman, have no idea who she is, other than it seems she got a picture of me many years ago, with her husband, shaking my hand on a reception line at a celebrity charity event,” Trump said.
