NEW YORK — A writer who claims Donald Trump sexually assaulted her during an interview and a former saleswoman who says he groped her on an airplane are among the witnesses whose testimony in a defamation suit he is seeking to put on hold.
The women are set to be deposed by lawyers for New York columnist E. Jean Carroll, who alleges the former president raped her two decades ago in a department store dressing room and then defamed her by denying it. Her lawyers say the testimony will show there is a well-established pattern of Trump assaulting women. He denies it all.
Now Trump, who himself is set to be questioned under oath on Oct. 19 in the defamation case, wants all the depositions called off until there’s a ruling on his motion to delay the suit, his lawyer Alina Habba said in a filing in federal court in Manhattan Tuesday. Beyond that, she said, her client is “ready and eager” to testify.
