NEW YORK — The writer who sued Donald Trump for defamation over his claim that she falsely said he raped her in a Manhattan department store was pressed on her accusation by his lawyer during a long-awaited deposition.
E. Jean Carroll filed a partial transcript of the October testimony late Monday in federal court in New York to back her argument that Trump has already gathered most of the evidence he needs for a possible joint trial in April of two cases: her 2019 defamation lawsuit and a battery suit she brought against him last month. Trump is seeking to push back the trial until later in 2023 as a result of the new case.
The transcript shows Trump attorney Alina Habba eliciting information about Carroll’s love life and emotional turmoil, as well as fresh details of the alleged assault in the 1990s. In taking the testimony, Habba probed the nature of the alleged encounter.
