Watch Trump deposition video in E. Jean Carroll rape case
Video and a transcript of former President Donald Trump's deposition in the defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll were released in court records Friday.
Carroll has accused Trump in a civil lawsuit of raping and defaming her.
The deposition, taken in October at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, was made public a day after Carroll's lawyers rested their case at the trial for the suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Trump's lawyers presented no witnesses of their own.
In the deposition, Trump says "that over the last million years ... unfortunately or fortunately," people who are considered "stars" could grab women sexually without their consent.
Trump told Carroll's lawyer that he considered himself to be a star.
Portions of the transcript have previously been released in separate court filings, and jurors on Thursday were shown portions of a video of the deposition.
Watch the Trump deposition video here.
In one such section, Trump, who has repeatedly said that Carroll was "not my type," mistook her for his former wife Marla Maples in a photo from the 1980s showing him, Carroll, her then-husband, and Trump's then-wife Ivana Trump together.
"That's Marla, yeah. That's my wife," Trump said before his lawyer Alina Habba stepped in during the deposition to tell him, "No, that's Carroll," Habba said.
Trump then said the photo was "very blurry."
Source: CNBC
