Video and a transcript of former President Donald Trump’s deposition in the defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll were released in court records Friday.
Carroll has accused Trump in a civil lawsuit of raping and defaming him.
The deposition, taken in October at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, was made public a day after Carroll’s lawyers rested their case at the trial for the suit in US District Court in Manhattan. Trump’s lawyers presented no witnesses of their own.
In the deposition, Trump says “that over the last million years … unfortunately or fortunately,” people who are considered