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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Bevan Hurley

Trump’s rape trial testimony could come back to bite him in hush money case

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Donald Trump’s shocking claims that stars can get away with sexual assault “unfortunately – or fortunately” during the E Jean Carroll rape trial may yet form a key piece of self-incriminating evidence at his criminal hush money payments trial.

A portion of the former president’s video-taped deposition was played at the federal civil trial in New York in May, where jurors ruled he was liable for sexually assaulting Ms Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s and ordered him to pay her $5m.

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