NEW YORK — Former president Donald Trump railed against a woman accusing him of raping her in a New York City department store three decades ago, calling her “mentally sick,” a “liar” — and insisting she later stated on TV that “rape was sexy,” according to testimony from a sworn deposition unsealed Friday.
Manhattan Federal Court Judge Lewis Kaplan unsealed portions of Trump’s deposition in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit after categorically rejecting Trump’s arguments for keeping the October 2022 deposition under seal as “entirely baseless.”
At the heart of Carroll’s two lawsuits against Trump are allegations he raped her inside the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s. Trump denies the incident.
