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Editor's note: This communicative includes a statement of intersexual assault.
A national justice successful New York connected Friday rejected an effort by lawyers for erstwhile President Donald Trump to support sealed a information of the transcript of his deposition successful a suit by a writer who accuses him of raping her successful the mid-1990s.
Trump's arguments for keeping the astir 3 twelve pages of his deposition sealed "are wholly baseless," Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote successful his bid successful U.S. District Court successful Manhattan.
That deposition showed Trump making insulting comments astir the writer who is suing him, E. Jean Carroll, her lawyer, and President Joe Biden, arsenic good arsenic grousing astir what helium called a bid of "hoaxes" involving allegedly mendacious claims made astir him.
The deposition which was conducted connected Oct. 19 by lawyers for Carroll astatine Trump's Mar-a-Lago nine successful Palm Beach, Florida.
Earlier Friday, Kaplan denied Trump's bid to flip retired 1 of the 2 lawsuits filed against him by Carroll, who says Trump raped her successful a dressing country successful the Bergdorf Goodman section store successful Manhattan much than 2 decades ago.
In his unsealing order, Kaplan said that Trump had nary close to confidentiality for his grounds erstwhile helium gave it. The justice noted that determination is simply a presumptive close held by the nationalist to tribunal documents.
The justice added that contrary to Trump's argument, the information of his transcript that was redacted successful the nationalist filing by Carroll's lawyers "was straight relevant" to a disagreement betwixt those attorneys and his implicit whether further find should beryllium conducted for her 2nd lawsuit.
Kaplan archetypal ordered the transcript unsealed connected Monday. But helium past reversed his bid aft Trump's lawyers asked him for 3 days to record arguments opposing the unsealing.
Trump, portion serving arsenic president, publically accused Carroll of making up the rape allegation, saying she was motivated by authorities and a tendency to merchantability a publication containing her claims.
Carroll past sued him for defamation.
She sued him again successful November erstwhile helium made what she says were different defamatory statements astir her successful a societal media station that Trump wrote successful October. Her 2nd suit besides alleges battery, a assertion that was allowed nether a caller New York authorities instrumentality that allows adults a one-year grace play to record lawsuits alleging intersexual maltreatment that occurred extracurricular of the clip framework allowed by the statute of limitations.
Trial successful the cases has been acceptable for April.
"It's a mendacious accusation," Trump said successful his deposition, according to the recently disclosed transcript. "Never happened, ne'er would happen."
"I volition writer her aft this is over, and that's the happening I truly look guardant to doing," Trump told Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, who is not related to the judge.
"And I'll writer you too."
Trump during the deposition was asked astir the Oct. 12 station helium made connected his societal media site, which refers to the "Ms. Bergdorf Goodman case," calling it "a implicit con job."
The station referenced a June 2019 interrogation Carroll gave CNN's Anderson Cooper that described her relationship of the alleged intersexual assault. She said it occurred aft a accidental gathering with Trump portion she was shopping, and helium allegedly asked her for assistance buying a contiguous "for a girl."
"She wholly made up a communicative that I met her astatine the doors of this crowded New York City section store and wrong minutes 'swooned' her," Trump had written, Kaplan noted successful her questioning.
Trump successful his deposition confirmed Kaplan had work that, and the remainder of the station accurately, saying, "Great statement, yeah. True. True."
"I wrote it each myself," helium added.
Asked if helium had talked to anyone astir what to accidental successful his post, Trump replied, "No, I didn't request to. I'm not Joe Biden."
Trump called Carroll a "wack job" during his deposition.
"I deliberation she's sick, mentally sick," helium said.
Kaplan past asked him astir his usage of the connection "swooned," which she called "a unusual word."
"What does 'swooned her' mean?" the lawyer asked.
Trump replied, "That would beryllium a word, possibly close oregon not, having to bash with talking to her and talking her — to bash an enactment that she said happened, which didn't happen."
"And it's a nicer connection than the connection that starts with an F, and this would beryllium a connection that I utilized due to the fact that I thought it would beryllium inappropriate to usage the different word," Trump said. "And it didn't happen."
When Kaplan said that the dictionary defined "swooned" arsenic "to faint with utmost emotion," Trump replied, "Well, benignant of that's what she said I did to her."
"She fainted with large emotion," Trump said. "She really indicated that she loved it. OK?," helium said, referring to Carroll's CNN interview.
"She loved it until commercialized break," Trump said. "In fact, I deliberation she said it was sexy, didn't she? She said it was precise sexy to beryllium raped. Didn't she accidental that?"
Kaplan past asked if Trump was testifying that Carroll "said that she loved being sexually assaulted by you."
Trump answered: "Well, based connected her interrogation with Anderson Cooper, I judge that's what took place. And we tin specify that. You'll person to amusement that. I'm definite you're going to amusement that. But she was interviewed by Anderson Cooper, and I deliberation she said that rape was sexy -- which it's not, by the way."
He added, "But I deliberation she said that rape was sexy."
In fact, Carroll had said successful that interrogation that she believed "most people" thought of rape arsenic "sexy." She did not accidental she believed that herself.
In that interview, Carroll said she was "panicked" erstwhile Trump unopen the doorway of the dressing country and pushed her against a partition and began kissing her earlier pulling down her tights.
"And it was against my will. And it hurt. And it was a fight," Carroll said successful the interview.
She aboriginal said successful the aforesaid interview, "I was not thrown connected the crushed and ravished. Which the connection 'rape' carries truthful galore intersexual connotations."
"This was not — this was not sexual. It conscionable hurt," Carroll said.
Cooper responded, "I deliberation astir radical deliberation of rape arsenic ... a convulsive assault."
Carroll past said, "I deliberation astir radical deliberation of rape arsenic being sexy."
When her lawyer Kaplan asked Trump if it was not existent that Carroll had said it was a presumption of galore different radical astir rape being sexy, helium said, "Oh, I don't cognize ... All I cognize is, I judge she said rape is sexy oregon thing to that effect, but you'll person to ticker the interview. It's been a while."
Trump aboriginal successful the deposition noted that successful his societal media station helium made what helium called the "not politically close statement" astir Carroll.
"She's not my type," Trump told Kaplan. "She is not a pistillate I would ever beryllium attracted to," helium added later.
"She's accusing maine of rape, a pistillate I person nary thought who she is," Trump said. "The worst happening you tin do, the worst charge."
"And you cognize it's not existent too," helium told Kaplan. "You're a governmental operative too. You're a disgrace."
He aboriginal suggested that Kaplan had immoderate benignant of power with the justice successful the lawsuit to get him to assistance her support to depose him for the lawsuit. It is modular successful lawsuits for attorneys to depose the parties successful a case.
"I knew that we'd beryllium wasting a time doing this, a full time doing this," Trump said. "You've got to beryllium connected to get this benignant of time. But a full time of doing this worldly connected thing that ne'er happened."
Kaplan noted that Trump had said successful his societal media station that Carroll's allegation was "a hoax and a lie, conscionable similar each the different hoaxes that person been played connected maine for the past 7 years."
When the lawyer asked if helium meant Carroll had fabricated her claim, Trump said, "Totally, 100 percent." He admitted that helium utilized the word "hoax" a lot.
"I've had a batch of hoaxes played connected me. This is 1 of them," Trump said.
Asked what immoderate of those were, Trump said, "The Russia Russia Russia hoax ... Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine hoax."
He pointed to peculiar counsel Robert Mueller's probe into imaginable connections betwixt the 2016 Trump run and Russia.
Trump besides said the usage of message ballots during the 2020 election, which helium mislaid to Biden, was a hoax.
"I deliberation they're precise dishonest. Mail-in ballots, precise dishonest," Trump said.
Asked by Kaplan if helium had himself voted by mail, Trump answered implicit the objections of his ain lawyer, Alina Habba.
"I do. I do," Trump said. "Sometimes I do. But I don't cognize what happens to it erstwhile you springiness it. I person nary idea."
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