Former President Donald Trump mistook E Jean Carroll, who is accusing him of rape, for his ex-wife Marla Maples during a deposition last year, according to excerpts released in US district court on Wednesday.
"That's Marla, yeah," Trump said when shown a photograph of his accuser. "That's my wife."
It sure sounds like Donald still refers to Marla Maples as his wife. I wonder how Melania feels about that.
The Washington Post reports:
Trump's blunder in a sworn deposition was quickly corrected by his attorney Alina Habba, who told him it was Carroll, not Maples, an actress and singer who was married to Trump from 1993 to 1999.
Maples was Trump's second of three wives and is the mother of Trump's youngest daughter, Tiffany.
The black-and-white photo at issue has been circulating since Carroll made allegations against then-president Trump in 2019, detailing an account in her memoir of a forced sexual act during an encounter with Trump at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s.
Trump has denied having ever known Carroll, and in response to the photo's existence, he has said in the past that he was often introduced to people at events that he didn't know. In the deposition, he said the photo appeared to show him on a "receiving line," possibly at a charity event, where he met and greeted guests.
In the deposition, Trump falsely claimed that Carroll said in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper that she enjoyed being raped. He repeatedly said she was mentally ill, citing the interview as proof of that claim even though that's not what she said.
